/* I'll only show ya' the .NET version mostly because those parsingmethods for 'standard' programming escape me! Perhaps someone can fill thispart in? */int ReadNumberFile(System::String ^FileName, int *Numbers)/* file name and pointer to an array that will hold the numbers! We'll returnthe ammount read in, and leave it up to the rest of the program to release thenumbers.The seperate numbers in the file must be seperated by spaces or on a new linefor this to function properly.*/{	System::IO::TextReader ^Reader = gcnew System::IO::StreamReader(FileName);	/* The association between this and FileStream is the stream! If you wanted	to, you could pass a valid FileStream^ to StreamReader(), or you could just	open up a file like this:	System::IO::FileStream ^FS=System::IO::File::Open(FileName,System::IO::FileMode::Open);	and read in the entire file into a char array, and parse it from there...	The only reason I'm using TextReader is it has some nifty functions to make	txt files easy to use!*/	System::String ^TextFile;	TextFile=Reader->ReadToEnd();	Reader->Close();	// if there's nothin' to do, let's get out of here!	if(TextFile->Length==0)		return 0;	// Now we need to find out how many numbers we're dealing with.	// This is just used in the String functions to test against.	array<wchar_t>^chars=gcnew array<wchar_t>(3);	chars[0]=L'/n';	// new line	chars[1]=L' ';	// space	chars[2]=L'/eof';// end of file	int pos=0, pos2=0, num=0, cnum=0; // position in file (two of them), the number of numbers, and one for later (current number).	while(pos<TextFile->Length)	{		pos=TextFile->IndexOfAny(chars,pos);		num++;	}	// now we have our number, let's start parsing for real!	Numbers = new int[num];	// we gotta' make our space.	pos=0;	for(cnum;cnum<num;cnum++)	{		pos2=TextFile->IndexOfAny(chars,pos);			// find the end of our current number		System::String ^Number=TextFile->Substring(pos,pos2-pos);// get our next string		Numbers[cnum]=System::Int32::Parse(Number);		// parse our number		pos=pos2;										// set our indecees so they work for the next loop	}	delete chars; // we have to clean up after ourselves.	return num;}

char Text[5]="1264"; // now the string (or char array) Text has 1264 in it.int Number=0;Number=Text;  /* this simply doesn't work, (besides Text itself being a pointer)                because Text has the number in text form, "1264" is four                seperate char's, each containing a number value to represent the                text letter. Text[0]=="1", Text[0]==49, Text[1]=="2"==50, etc.*/Number = ParseIntFromString(Text); /* this does work, because the magical                parsing function will return the actual data number found in                Text, and not simply the number value of each character. */

// reading inifstream f("File.txt")if(!f.IsOpen()) // may not be the exact funtion, but meh...    // failed to open, deal with itint Num;f>>Num; // read in using the stream opperator >>f.close();// writing outofstream f("File.txt")// same check for opened...int num=20;f<<num;int num2=10, num3=31, num4=40;f<< num2 << " " << num3 << " " << num4;f.close();