Hello,
Im writing a banking system program for one of my assignments using classes, i've got the some basic stuff done but I can't for the life of me work out how to read data out of a file i've previously created and display it on screen. (I've cut the code down so it's easier to read on here)
The part im stuck on is the Current::DisplayDetails class, doing it the way I have at the moment throws an error:
error C2664: 'class std::basic_istream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > &__thiscall std::basic_istream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >::getline(char *,int)' : cannot conv
ert parameter 1 from 'class std::basic_fstream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >' to 'char *'Can anyone help? :)
//account.h
#ifndef H_account
#define H_account
class Account
{
public:
Account();
void createNewAccount();
void displayDetails(void);
void saveAccount();
~Account();
protected:
int iAccNum;
char sCusName[30];
char sCusAddress[30];
double dAccBalance;
char name[30];
};
class Current : public Account
{
public:
Current();
void setDetails(void);
void displayDetails(void);
void saveAccount();
~Current();
private:
double dOverdraftLimit;
};
#endif
//banking.cpp
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include "account.h"
using namespace std;
void Account::createNewAccount(void)
{
cout << "\nPlease enter a new account number:>";
cin >> iAccNum;
cout << "\nPlease enter the customers name:>";
cin.getline(sCusName,30);
cout << "\nPlease enter the customers address:>";
cin >> sCusAddress;
cout << "\nPlease enter the starting account balance:>" << (char)156;
cin >> dAccBalance;
}
void Current::saveAccount()
{
ofstream AccFile("current.dat", ios::out | ios::binary | ios::app);
AccFile << iAccNum << endl;
AccFile << sCusName << endl;
AccFile << sCusAddress << endl;
AccFile << dAccBalance << endl;
AccFile << dOverdraftLimit << endl;
AccFile.close();
}
void Current::setDetails()
{
Account::createNewAccount();
cout << "\nPlease enter the over overdraft limit:>";
cin >> dOverdraftLimit;
Current::saveAccount();
}
void Current::displayDetails(void)
{
fstream checkFile("current.dat", ios::in | ios::binary | ios::beg);
system("cls");
cin.getline(name,30);
cin.getline(checkFile, sCusName);
if(name == sCusName)
{
system("cls");
cout << "Account Overview \n" << endl;
cout << "Account Name: " << sCusName << "\n";
cout << "Account Number: " << iAccNum;
cout << endl;
checkFile >> dAccBalance;
cout << "Balance:" << (char)156 << dAccBalance << endl;
}
}