merging 2 text files into 1. c++ help!

[thefonz22]

Hi guys. There seems to be a lot of people on this forum who know what they are talking about. My question is simple. I'm fairly new to c++ and i have hit a brick wall. I'm trying to write a simple program that grabs 2 txt files and outputs to a third. eg

Text1.txt
-----------
Hello everybody!

Text2.txt
----------
Great meeting you all

i want the output text to be this.

Output.txt
----------
Hello everybody!
great meeting you all

Simple thats all i need it to do, nothing else, no sorting nothing!! HELP!!!!

[Ancient Dragon]

There are a couple ways to do it.

open file 1 for input

open result file for output

read each line in file 1 and write it to the result file. getline() will help you with that.

After done, close file 1 -- leave result file open

Now do the same thing with file 2.

[thefonz22]

thanks for replying. I know theres prob a few ways to do it. If anyone has the actual code would they be able to paste it in? Only if you already have it and it only takes a few secs to do it. Still scratching my head. back to the books for me i think! Damn..

[Ancient Dragon]

>>If anyone has the actual code would they be able to paste it in?

Nope -- not happening here at DaniWeb. We don't do people's homework assignments for them.

[thefonz22]

It's not for homework. It's actually for a data entry job I have. If i can land this i can do a weeks worth in 20 seconds. It;s that important to me! Damn! Back to the drawing board again, or another forum i guess.

[Ancient Dragon]

Well then do it in another language such as awk. Hell, if you are on MS-Windows you can even do it in a command prompt c:> copy file1+file2+file3 file4

[thefonz22]

really? SWEET! i'm going to give that a try. Cheers for this one. I'll try the command prompt idea.

[thefonz22]

Hi All. Question when I do a merge with the command prompt; say for example
c:> copy file1.txt+file2.txt file3.txt

file1.txt
--------
excellent

file2.txt
---------
cool

file3.txt (is turning out)
---------
excellentcool

file3.txt (would this be possible?)
---------------------
excellent
cool

any help guys?

[thefonz22]

or say i want.

1.txt
-----
wow cool
this is a test

2.txt
-----
can anyone help?
hello?

output.txt
--------
wow cool
this is a test
can anyone help?
hello?

[thefonz22]

ps- i program at a hello world level! :(

[Ancient Dragon]

>>excellentcool

I'll bet text1 is not terminated with a '\n' (or Enter key) after the last line in the file

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    //declare two files for reading
    
    ifstream read1( "1.txt");
    ifstream read2("2.txt");
    
    //declare file for writing
    ofstream write ("3.txt");
    
    string line;
    string line2;
    
    while ( getline ( read1, line, '\n' ) )
    {
      write << line << endl;
    }
    
    while ( getline ( read2, line2, '\n' ) )
    {
      write << line2 << endl;
    }
    
    read1.close();
    read2.close();
    
    write.close();
    
}

[ken.green.142035]

Write a program that reads two files, file1.txt and file2.txt, and merges these two files to a third file named output.txt. The file file1.txt
contains even numbers between 0 and 10. The second file file2.txt contains odd numbers between 0 and 10. After you merge the files, the output file
contains all numbers from 0 to 10 in order.