Subj : Re: fstream arrays
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : " Bruce Salzman" <bruce@nospam.org>
Date : Wed Feb 25 2004 03:07 pm


> the file open is called only once for any given item of the array (which
is
> when the "  if (!out_files[file]) error is declared), the data is written
at
> the end of the program (successfully), and the files are closed
sucessfully.

Not sure what the error is. Have you examined ios::state to see which bits
are set?

> The program works without any error at all when I do NOT declare the
fstream
> variable to be an array and when I do open the fstream as array items it
> does actually open a file even though it claims to be returning a 0 when
> checked.

What returns 0? get_subj_fp() returns 0 on success. open() doesn't return
anything.

>  I have lived with this for some years but am now having a similar
> enough problem in the GUI domain that I need to understand how arrays of
> stream pointers differ from streams.

Your code doesn't have arrays of stream pointers. You declare an array of
stream objects.

Regards,
Bruce

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