I've been doing my project and the last thing I need to do is to save to and start reading a structure array from a file on startup of the program, but I can't figure out why the code isn't loading the information of the file. Earlier I asked a similar question and got referred to serialization, which didn't work and I decided to turn my strings into chars and change the functions to work with chars, since I thought that I might be serializing wrong, considering the fact that I first learned how to do it today, unfortunately the program still doesn't read, even though it writes in the file. My style is pretty bad, so I apologize in advance. Here's the code sample only of the struct fread and fwrite with the main:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include<fstream>
using namespace std;
struct property {
int num;
char nBrok[50];
char type[10];
char adress [70];
char outlook[20];
double price;
double size;
int nRooms;
int floor;
int status;
};
fstream fp;
void fileWrite(property bDanni[], int n) {
fp.open("dbase.dat", ios::binary | ios::out);
if (!fp) {
cout << "\n Error in file \n"; exit(1);
}
fp.write((char*)bDanni, sizeof(property) *n);
fp.close();
}
int fileRead(property bDanni[]) {
long pos; int n = 0, i; property b;
fp.open("dbase.dat", ios::binary | ios::in);
if (!fp) {
cout << "\n file does not exist\n"; return n;
}
fp.seekg(0l, ios::end);
pos = fp.tellg();
fp.close();
n = pos / (sizeof(property));
fp.open("dbase.dat", ios::binary | ios::in);
if (!fp) {
cout << "\n Error in file \n"; exit(1);
}
for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
fp.read((char*)&b, sizeof(property));
bDanni[i] = b;
}
fp.close();
return n;
}
int main() {
property bDanni[100];
char answer;
int total = 0;
cout << "Do you wat to read from the save file?(y/n): ";
cin >> answer;
if (answer == 'y') {
int total = fileRead(bDanni);
}
}
