How do I output the complete text from employee.dat to employee.dak?

[Shishykish]

Hello,

I have created a text file using the data contained in arrays of various data types (char, int, string, etc). But when I try to read and output to a new stream I can only read a few characters.

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstdlib> // needed for exit()
#include <string>
#include <iomanip> // needed for formatting

using namespace std;

int main()
{

int noofemployees= 5;

string filename = "employee.dat"; // put the filename up front
string filename1 = "employee.dak";
string names [noofemployees] = {"Andrew", "Burrows", "Fain", "Janney", "Smith"};
char group[noofemployees] = {"A", "W","B","P","G"};
int code [noofemployees] = {"10031", "10067", "10083", "10095", "10005"};
double code1 [noofemployees] = {"7.82","9.14","8.79", "10.57", "8.50"};
string dob [noofemployees] = {"12/18/2008", "06/9/2006","05/18/2007", "09/28/2008", "12/20/2007"};


string readbuffer[512];

string namescopy[noofemployees], dobcopy[noofemployees];
string groupcopy[noofemployees];
string code1copy[noofemployees];
string codecopy[noofemployees];

ofstream employeedata;
ofstream employeecopy;

employeedata.open("employee.dat");
employeecopy.open("employee.dak");

    for (int i = 0; i < noofemployees; i++)
    {

        cout << names[i] << setw(10)<< group[i] << setw(10) << code[i] << setw(10) << code1[i] << setw(10) << dob[i] << setw(10) <<endl;
        employeedata << names[i] << setw(10)<< group[i] << setw(10) << code[i] << setw(10) << code1[i] << setw(10) << dob[i] << setw(10) <<"\n";

   }

if (employeedata.fail())
{
    cerr << " Your file has failed to opened" << endl;
}


int counter = 0;

while(!employeedata.eof())
{
   getline(employeedata, readbuffer);
   

    counter++;
}

cout << counter << "items found ";

cout << readbuffer;

employeecopy << readbuffer;

return 0;

}

[rafae11]

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstdlib> // needed for exit()
#include <string>
#include <iomanip> // needed for formatting

using namespace std;

int main()
{

	const int noofemployees = 5;

	string filename = "employee.dat"; // put the filename up front
	string filename1 = "employee.dak";
	string names[noofemployees] = { "Andrew", "Burrows", "Fain", "Janney", "Smith" };
	char group[noofemployees] = { 'A', 'W', 'B', 'P', 'G' };
	int code[noofemployees] = { 10031, 10067, 10083, 10095, 10005 };
	double code1[noofemployees] = { 7.82, 9.14, 8.79, 10.57, 8.50 };
	string dob[noofemployees] = { "12/18/2008", "06/9/2006", "05/18/2007", "09/28/2008", "12/20/2007" };

	string namescopy[noofemployees], dobcopy[noofemployees];
	string groupcopy[noofemployees];
	string code1copy[noofemployees];
	string codecopy[noofemployees];

	ofstream employeedata;

        // need ifstream to read the information
	ifstream employeeread;
	ofstream employeecopy;

	employeedata.open("employee.dat");
	employeecopy.open("employee.dak");

	for (int i = 0; i < noofemployees; i++)
	{

		cout << names[i] << setw(10) << group[i] << setw(10) << code[i] << setw(10) << code1[i] << setw(10) << dob[i] << setw(10) << endl;
		employeedata << names[i] << setw(10) << group[i] << setw(10) << code[i] << setw(10) << code1[i] << setw(10) << dob[i] << setw(10) << "\n";

	}

	employeedata.close();

	employeeread.open("employee.dat");

	if (employeeread.fail())
	{
		cerr << " Your file has failed to opened" << endl;
	}


	int counter = 0;

	while (!employeeread.eof())
	{
		string readbuffer;
		std::getline(employeeread, readbuffer);
		
                // output to new file the data you read.
		employeecopy << readbuffer << "\n";
				
		counter++;
	}

	employeecopy.close();

	cout << counter << "items found ";

	int x;
	cin >> x;
	

	return 0;

}

[Shishykish]

Hello,

// need ifstream to read the information
	ifstream employeeread;
	ofstream employeecopy;

while (!employeeread.eof())
	{
		string readbuffer;
		std::getline(employeeread, readbuffer);
		
                // output to new file the data you read.
		employeecopy << readbuffer << "\n";
				
		counter++;
	}

I believe my underlying methodology was wrong, where I failed to read, then output to the file. Funnily enough I was just about to code this! Thanks a lot!