what you might need to do is allocate space for the names first, altough looking at your source, you seem to have done this. assuming you have code that looks like this:

char names[11][16]; /* eleven names, up to 16 characters */

then you can rely on the fact that you have 176 bytes of text in the file, and that can be loaded all in one go, by doing this:

fread(&names[0][0], sizeof(char), 11 * 16, pTheFileYouAreUsing);

this will read the charecters straight into your array in one go.

howvever, if you have variable length names, like

char* names[11]; /* eleven POINTERS to string */

you can''t simply load them up from the file, because there is no space for them. if your using c++, do this:

char buffer[255];
for(int i=0; i<11; i++)
{
fscanf(pSomeFileOrOther, "%s\n", buffer);
names = new char[strlen(buffer)];
strcpy(names, buffer);<br>}<br><br>this reads eleven strings, allocates space for them.<br><br>if this doesn''t work, try using the ''string'' class from the standard library, it is so well written, it can be FASTER than char* strings! </i>

quote:Original post by davekerr
if this doesn't work, try using the 'string' class from the standard library, it is so well written, it can be FASTER than char* strings!

Even better, use the STL first .

// note that these are C++98 headers!#include &ltiostream>#include &ltstring>#include &ltvector>using namespace std;vector&ltstring> names;ifstream file;void ReadNamesFromFile(char *filename){  char temp[80];    // this should be the max line length  file.open(filename);  int j = 0;  while(!file.eof())  {    file.get(temp, 80);    names[j++] = tmp;  // increments counter after   statement.  }}  

Edit: counter, pointer.

Edited by - Oluseyi on October 19, 2001 5:30:41 PM

quote:Original post by phueppl1
CString is well written...

CString is part of MFC; I don''t think that''s what davekerr was talking about.

CString does have certain very nice features that I wish STL string had, though.

dunno if this is what your after, but this is the method i generally use.....

  void ReadData(char Filename[20]){    std::ifstream DATA(Filename);    if(DATA)    {	for(int x=0; x<MAX_SCORES; x++)	{        std::string data;        DATA >> Score[x]	}    }    else	{	cout<<"could not load score data...";	}}  

might not be the best way, probably isnt, but hey! i works for me.

Alan