<items>
  <item name="Mana Potion">
    <desc>A potion of Mana</desc>
    <effects>
      <mana>+10</mana>
    </effects>
    <store>10</store>
    <inventory>5</inventory>
    <equipment>1</equipment>
  </item>
</items>

class item {
    string name;
    int price;
    string desc;
    map<string,int> effects;
    int InvenQuant, EquipQuant, StoreQuant;
}

        void LoadGame() // Still implementing
        {
            ifstream gameIn(file.c_str());
            string line, prev;
            do
            {
                gameIn >> line;
                prev = line;
                for (int i = 0; i < line.length(); i++)
                {
                    cout << line[i];
                    if (line[i] == 's')
                    {
                        i++;
                        cout << ": S will have ";
                        for (int it = i; line[it] != '!'; it++)
                        {
                            cout << line[it];
                            i++;
                        }
                        cout << " object." << endl;
                    }
                    break;
                }
                break;
                cout << line << endl;
            } while (!gameIn.eof() && line != prev);
            gameIn.close();
        }

s
mp
Mana Potion
Mana,+10
Adds 10 to your current amount of mana.
~
ies
ex
Elixer
Life,+20!Mana,+20
Adds 20 to your current amount of life.

// ...
#include "cStore.h"

store shop("shop.txt"); //Calls the constructor (you're probably thinking, "DUH!")

// ... skipping to cStore.h (EDIT: Everything from here down is in "class store")

    private:
        map<string, string> shopMap;
        string file;
        ifstream shopIn;
        ofstream shopOut;

/*
 *Please pretend there's a public: here... I don't want to have
 *to re-indent my code 8 spaces. >_<
 */
store(string userfile)
{
    shopIn.open(userfile.c_str()); //This opens an ifstream with the user-specified file
    cout << "Loading Store\n"; //Just for testing purposes; I want to make sure I don't break my code somehow.
    LoadStore(); //Uh... loads the store?
}

~store()
{
    if (shopIn.is_open()) shopIn.close();
    if (shopOut.is_open()) shopOut.close();
    SaveStore(); //Saves the store to a file
}

void LoadStore()
{
    string line, key;
    string item[2];
    do
    {
        shopIn >> line; //Gets a line from shopIn every iteration of the do-while
        if ((line != (item[0] + '%' + item[1])) && (line != "")) //If the line is not the same as the line before...
        {
            item[0] = PairSplit(line); //...then parse the line and save the first half here...
            item[1] = PairSplit(line, 1); //..and save the second half here.
            shopMap.insert(pair<string, string>(item[0], item[1])); //Insert the key-value pair into the shopMap.
            cout << shopMap[item[0]] << endl; //Debugging cout statement.
        }
    } while (!shopIn.eof());
}

void SaveStore()
{
    shopOut.open(file.c_str()); //opens an ofstream to the user-specified file
    if (!shopMap.empty()) //if the shopMap is not empty
    {
        map<string,string>::iterator forIter = shopMap.begin(); //iterator starting at the beginning of the map
        map<string,string>::iterator endIter = shopMap.end(); //iterator that stays at the end of the map
        string line;
        do
        {
            if (forIter->first != "" && forIter->second != "") //If forIter does not contain null values...
            {
                line = forIter->first + '%' + forIter->second; //...concatenate them using the %...
                cout << line << endl;
                shopOut << line << endl; //...and print them to the file.
                forIter++; //Increment forIter.
            }
        } while (forIter != endIter);
        shopOut.close();
    }
}