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Abubakar - 11 Sep 2007 14:23 GMT

Hi,

If I write the following code:

ofstream f;
f.open("c:\\hello.txt", ios::binary | ios::out);

how do I check if the file is successfully opened and ready to write ?
Should I do a f.is_open() check ?

Regards,

..ab

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Michael Phillips, Jr. - 11 Sep 2007 14:34 GMT

> how do I check if the file is successfully opened and ready to write ?

Try:
if ( f.good() )
{
// Write...
}

> Hi,
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Abubakar - 11 Sep 2007 15:40 GMT

Thanks, n what if write() function fails.

..ab

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Michael Phillips, Jr. - 11 Sep 2007 15:45 GMT

> Thanks, n what if write() function fails.

Then f.fail() will return true.

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