Problem with writing to a file.

[Sausage]

I have been writing scores for a player to a text file using ofstream and it works perfectly however, everytime I run the program, it overwrites the previous data I saved.

How can I write to the file AFTER what's already in the text file, for instance.

Text file contains:

Name: Bob
Score: 500

Text file after adding new score:

Name: Sally
Score: 400

Name: Bob
Score: 500

Thanks for any help in advance.

[tcs]

Use openmode app (see http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ios/ios_base/openmode/) when opening (see http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/fstream/ofstream/open/) the file.

[Sausage]

The links don't seem to work. Is there a way to do it by using the ifstream alone?

[tcs]

No ifstream. Use ofstream to output anything:

std::ofstream ofs;
ofs.open ("test.txt", std::ofstream::out | std::ofstream::app);

[Sausage]

Oops, yes I meant ofstream sorry.

I'm still a little confused, my program writes out the data fine but I don't know how I can add more to the text file without it replacing the text already in the file.

This is my writer code that writes some data into a text file.

if (!playerName.empty())
		scoreWriter << "PlayerName: " << playerName;
	else
		scoreWriter << "PlayerName: Unknown Player";
if (correctAnswers > 1)
		scoreWriter << "\nPlayerScore: £" << moneyAmount[correctAnswers];
	else
		scoreWriter << "\nPlayerScore: Nothing";

[tcs]

From Cplusplus.com open mode reference manual:

app		All output operations happen at the end of the file, appending to its existing contents.