I need to read information from a text file into a struct array. Im writing a program to make a list of favorites that the user will input. When they close the program, the array will write to a file. The next time the program is ran, i need to read in the file and continue the array where i left off. I need to read in 3 parts to the struct. Here is what i have so far, with some play code that i was trying.

// assumptions: 100 favoriates at most
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

// data structure

struct favorite
{
	int id;
	string url;				
	string annotation;
	// to deal with file operations, better use 
	// char url[100]; 
	//then you need to use strcmp, strcpy functions etc.
};

const int MAX=100;

struct favorite fs[MAX];

void writearecord(struct favorite af, int index)
{

	fs[index].id=af.id;
	fs[index].annotation=af.annotation;
	fs[index].url=af.url;
	
}

void dptable(int upplimit)
{
	for(int i=0; i<upplimit; i++)
	{
		ifstream("favlist.txt");
		cout<<fs[i].id<<"  "<<fs[i].url<<"  "<<fs[i].annotation<<endl;
	}
}

int main()
{
	struct favorite onefavorite;
	

	//onefavorite.id=1;
	//onefavorite.url="www.google.com";
	//onefavorite.annotation="search engine";
	
	//writearecord(onefavorite, 0);
	dptable(3);
	ofstream outf("favlist.txt", ios::app);
	
	for (int i=0; i<3; i++)
	{
		onefavorite.id =i;
		cout << "Please enter URL: " ;
		cin >> onefavorite.url;
		cout << "Enter annotation: " ;
		cin >> onefavorite.annotation ;
		outf << onefavorite.id<<" " << onefavorite.url<<" " << onefavorite.annotation << endl;
		
		writearecord(onefavorite, i);
	}
	
	dptable(3);

	return 0;
}

and my text file
0 www.aol.com Mail
1 www.cnet.com Tech
2 www.yaoo.com SE

i need to read the "0" into .id, the www.aol.com into the .url, and "mail" into .annotation then read in the next line of data.
I just am just starting to get into programming so any help would be greatly appreciated.

1. USE CODE TAGS!

2. Move the open statement up outside the loop.

void dptable(int upplimit)
{
    ifstream("favlist.txt");
    for(int i=0; i<upplimit; i++)
   {
       cout<<fs[i].id<<" "<<fs[i].url<<" "<<fs[i].annotation<<endl;
   }
}

3. Delete that ofstream object that you put in main() -- it serves no purpose and may cause problems with the write function.

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