C / C++ / MFC

Blah Blah Blah 29 wrote:

It's just that I don't know what to do when it comes to reading an input file

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain

"We will be known forever by the tracks we leave." - Native American Proverb

for (int n = 0; n < VSIZE; n++)
{
    int nValid = 0;
    cout << "Details for student number "<<n+1<<":"<<endl<<endl;
    cout << "Please input Students Name"<<endl;
    cout << "(maximum of 30 characters): ";
    do
    {
        cin.getline(chTemp,200); // use getline if you want to eat the carriage return
        if(strlen(chTemp) == 0) //this is my atemp at identifiying a carige return
        {
            cout << "Name contains no characters, Please try again: ";
        }
        else if(strlen(chTemp) > 30) // because you didn't put the "else" here, your logic is all funny as anything <= 30 becomes valid (even if strlen(chTemp) == 0
        {
            cout << "Name contains " << strlen(chTemp) << " characters, Please input a shorter name: ";
        }
        else
        {
            nValid = 1;
        }
    }
    while (nValid == 0);
    strcpy(arrStudent[n],chTemp);
}

if(chTemp[200] == "exit")

gets(chTemp);<br />
if (!strcmp(chTemp, "exit"))   //both are equel<br />
{<br />
 do something;<br />
}