Help in my code snipet!

[manuel.sabu]

case 4:
 {
  cout<<"Enter the word you want to delete: ";
  gets(b);
  f1.open("anotherf.txt",ios::in);
  f2.open("tempf.txt",ios::out);
  while(!f1.eof())
  {
   f1>>a;
   i++;
   if(strcmp(a,b)==0)
   {
    j=i;
   }
  }
 i=0;

 while(!f1.eof())
 {
   if(i!=j)
   {
    f1>>a;
    f2<<a;
   }
  i++;
 }
 f1.close();
 f2.close();
 f2.open("tempf.txt",ios::in);
 f2.seekg(0);
 f1.open("anotherf.txt",ios::out);
 while(!f2.eof())
 {
  f2>>a;
  f1<<a;
 }
 goto menu;
 }

I am trying to delete a certain element from a file. However when i run it it only displays blank. And from testing it, i THINK it doesn't even reach the part of the code where the information is passed from the second file back to the first.Im new to file handling, please help! Tha

[NathanOliver]

well one thing i can see is that you never reset the file stream to the begining when you go from your first while loop to your second while loop. You really need to indent your code better. As is it is very hard to follow. Here is an example of some better indentation.

int main()
{
    int foo = 1;
    int bar = 2;
    if(foo == bar)
    {
        // do something
    }
    else
    {
        if (bar - 1 == foo)
        {
            // do some more
        }
        else
        {
            // do something else
        }
    }
    cin.get();
    return 0;
}