I am not a first time posted here dragon, obviously.
However, I dont expect you to remember my skill set.

I know how to open a file, read from a file, read into a struct array, class array etc. Ive never used a dynamic array which shouldnt be too hard, ive never worked with linked lists which are challenging to me right now.

The first file looks something like

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1233434 Name 40
4444445 Name 23

1233434 Name 40 4444445 Name 23

First number is the SSN
Next is the name
then hours.

read from a file into a dynamic array of employee struct, size of array will be 3 when program starts, int ssn will serve as unique identifer.

Well I believe the array gets resized depending on the number of items in the list each line read is one item so I am going to problem read the file for first for a count of elements something like this

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fin.open("some.file")
 
while(fin>>ssn>>name>>hours)
{
 n++
}
 
and where n in the count of items in the array since the output will be formatted this way
 
and doing something like
 
employee emparr = new emparr[n]

fin.open("some.file") while(fin>>ssn>>name>>hours) { n++ } and where n in the count of items in the array since the output will be formatted this way and doing something like employee emparr = new emparr[n]

Well the first three elements are considered one item in the array

emparr[0].ssn
emparr[1].name
emparr[0].hours

He really didnt clarify all he said default size of 3