Problem with writing to a file

[atch]

Hi,
I'm trying to print to a file some data of objects and I'm trying to do this in pseudo xml format so my file would look like let's say:
<node>
data
</node>
I'm using write method:

fstream fout("my_file.txt");
fout.write("<name>", sizeof(7));
fout.write("\n", sizeof(2));
fout.write(this->name(), sizeof(this->name()).length());
fout.write("\n", sizeof(2));
fout.write("<name>", sizeof(8));

which I was convinced should produce output as I described above. Unfortunetly it is not the case and my output look like this:

"<na
Odin
name

I personally feel that it has to do with '<' character but I don't know where to hit and also another problem with this task is that when I set the opening mode to binary nothing is written to this file.
Thank you for any help.

[zautner]

It's gonna work, once you get rid of those "sizeof"'s, which actually always return the size of integer. The right invocation might look like:
<code>
fout.write("<name>", 7);
</code>

[kvprajapati]

Syntax: write(char_array,no_of_bytes_to_be_written);

char ar[]="Hello";
  fout.write(ar,1); // It will write  H
  fout.write(ar,2); // it will write  He
  fout.write(ar,3); // It will write  Hel
  fout.write(ar,strlen(ar));
  ....

sizeof(2) or sizeof(7) will return number of bytes used to hold integer value - 4 bytes.
PS: avoid the use of sizeof() operator.

[atch]

Guys, thank you very much. Most appreciated. Great crew.

[atch]

Hi, it's me again,
Another two problems which I'm having with this example is that when in ofstream constructor I specify mode as binary:
ofstream fout("my_file.txt", ios_base::binary);
nothing is written to a file (at least I can't see there anything)
and another problem which I cannot cross is that I cannot write integers to a file only strings. What I'm doing is:
int a = 1;
fout.write(reinterpret_cast<char*>(&a), sizeof(int));
after this nothing is written in the file;
Hope someone will help me with this kerfuffle.