ive been working on the above example.. heres what i have so far...


#include <iomanip>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

void displaymenu(void); ...

ok... is it okay if i you help me expand my knowledge even more?
take a different example...
say i got a file of swimmers

e.g.
M
100 Free
50.24
Ian Thorpe
10/12/1960

thanks mate ive learnt sooo much in the past couple days...

sorry one more question...
maybe i didnt make myself clear eariler...
if i have more then one record.... say about 10 records for the entire file

and want to be able to manipluate them...

mate your a legend... it was frustrating me something severe..!

like i said i am very ver new to this...
but that makes logical sense
if i was reading from cin...
i would go something like
iss.cin << name << length << time << type << urgent;
is this...

excuse me as i am new to programming and trying to learn

i have searched through previous forum groups on this topic and i wish to seek the help of all tthe experts out there...
i wish to input a...

currently the space is the separator for the record into the class

i know this forum link hasnt been looked at in a while.. but on the previous example how would you read the file if the contents was different
say the separator was a new line \n
therefore one...