Read a File

[eager cypress]

I'm suppose to create a program that reads names one at a time. I'm not understanding what I am doing wrong I went online on YouTube to help me understand it thankfully, it was pretty straightforward and easy to understand, but every time I run the program, it says names and doesn't list the names in the file.

[faint yew]

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[keen wasp]

[eager cypress]

This is what I have so far

And this is what happens when I run it

[keen wasp]

What is the name of the file?

[eager cypress]

Names.csv

[keen wasp]

And is that what you input to the program?

[eager cypress]

Im sorry after rechecking it says Names

[keen wasp]

It must be Names.txt

[eager cypress]

Hmmm when I open the file that my teacher had me download it opens excel

With the names

here

[keen wasp]

So is a csv?

[eager cypress]

Ok I probably explained this badly. When I click to down the file it says csv, but when I see it on the file, it says names. Does that matter?

[keen wasp]

It also tells the type of the file in explorer

Right to the name of the file

[eager cypress]

It says Excel in explorer

[keen wasp]

Show it

Im assuming its a csv

[keen wasp]

Input "Names.csv" to your progran

[eager cypress]

Ok one second

[keen wasp]

Without double quotes

[eager cypress]

Sorry this class is introduction to C++ and our class has to use visual studio

[keen wasp]

Well thank god

Its not dev c++

So did you enter the name of the file when your program asks for the input?

[eager cypress]

Yes but now there are errors and im not understanding what happened

Im checking if I hit a key I shouldn't have somewhere

Oh I see one second

[keen wasp]

You should just hardcode the name in the program, not ask for it in input as asshullbreaker mentioned.

[eager cypress]

How would I do that then?

[keen wasp]

change infile.open(Names); to infile.open("Names.csv"); and remove getline above it

[eager cypress]

Sorry I move slow

[keen wasp]

And also

The Names.csv should be next to your program exe or working directory

[keen wasp]

Remove the getline line entirely

[eager cypress]

ok

Sure one second

The file is added and no errors now

Im sorry where?

[keen wasp]

That is easy to get around

First of all open the damn file, im sure it won't be easy cuz of visual studio

[eager cypress]

Click on it?

Because this is what happens

[keen wasp]

No, did you run your program?

[eager cypress]

Oh hold on

[keen wasp]

Right

So now where is this csv file located, which folder

[eager cypress]

In my downloads?

Or is that not correct?

[keen wasp]

Copy it to the project directory

[keen wasp]

This outputs shows where that is 2 lines below

[eager cypress]

Got it give me a second again

Do you want me to put in the infile.open line?

[keen wasp]

No in the folder where your .cpp file is located, copy it there

[eager cypress]

Ok done

[keen wasp]

Now run

[eager cypress]

Epic

Hmm that small problem for that

ok

Thank you though

[keen wasp]

Lets move to the next problem

[eager cypress]

ok

[keen wasp]

The names are separated by ','

[eager cypress]

Oh yes that's right the other one did say that

So what exactly do I do?

[keen wasp]

You have to, as he said replace , with newline

[eager cypress]

As in just type newline?

Sorry still learning

[keen wasp]

Not really, you have to keep printing the character until you see that the character is comma, if its a comma dont print it instead print '\n' in its place, do you know how to do that?

[eager cypress]

No sorry

[keen wasp]

Do you know what part of your code prints the file(names)?

[eager cypress]

No

[keen wasp]

Giving you the solution directly will be spoon-feeding now, so maybe you should go through your code a line at a time, and figure out what exactly it is doing, otherwise you will learn nothing.

[eager cypress]

using namespace?

Thats whats separating it right or supposed to

[keen wasp]

No, it makes the names in std namespace visible globally, so you dont have to type std::cout, std::getline etc, but its a bad practice to put using namespace std

[keen wasp]

Start from int main()

[eager cypress]

Would this be it? while (infile.get(c)) // Read and print each character from the file... Remembering from the video it reads each character correct?

[keen wasp]

Yes, this is what reads each character one at a time from the file

And what prints the character to the console?

[eager cypress]

cout

[keen wasp]

The character that is read from the file is stored in c defined above this while loop as char c;

[keen wasp]

Yes

You can check the value of c, if its ',' then print the newline

[eager cypress]

Went back to another video for a second that was like this but is it suppose to be like this?

[keen wasp]

Yes thats it

Did you get this from the video?

[eager cypress]

My teacher doesn't really have any videos on the class so im just researching what I can and trying to take notes at the same time

while not confusing myself

I found some helpful YouTube videos that explain c++ really well but get lost easily

Uh but however can I ask that we stop because it almost 3 here

[keen wasp]

Sure

[eager cypress]

Sorry and thank you

[keen wasp]

Ditch the videos get the book

[keen wasp]

No worries and no problem

[eager cypress]

Do you want me to close this and open another one? Or do you want me to leave this open when I come back

[keen wasp]

I guess its solved

[eager cypress]

Ok then

[hard agate]

What is ifstream? A decoration for file operations to can use ??

[keen wasp]

Its an input file stream, a file from which you extract data

[eager cypress]

I believe that header is used to read files if im not mistaken

[hard agate]

Oh okay tyy ! <33

[eager cypress]

Oh I was way off hahaha

night guys

[hard agate]

Nightt

[eager cypress]

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