I don't know what to do!?

[PeshkovIntel]

So i am a freshmen in college and i have to get this program written within the next 12hrs for extra credit. I can't wrap my head around how to get started mainly how to get a program to read a txt file and output a new one. 

And this is to be written in C++. 

 

This right here is the question

 

 

There are three employees in a company and they are slated to get a pay increase this year. You are given a file, named employeeData.txt, that has the following data inside.

Haptal Felicity 75124.87 5.3
Beckinsale Ford 49546.56 6.7
Longoria Dempsey 85700.50 4.9

Each line has the employee’s last name, first name, current salary, and the percent for their pay increase.

For example, the first line of the data is the first employee and their last name is Haptal, their first name is Felicity, their salary is 75124.87, and their pay increase is 5.3 percent.

Write a program that reads data from the specified file, employeeData.txt, and stores the output in the file employeeRaise.dat. For each employee, the data stored in the output file must be of this form:
firstName lastName updatedSalary. Be sure to format the output of decimal numbers to two decimal places.

[reniat]

1 minute ago, PeshkovIntel said:

So i am a freshmen in college and i have to get this program written within the next 12hrs for extra credit. I can't wrap my head around how to get started mainly how to get a program to read a txt file and output a new one. 

To start with, what have you tried so far, and what language is it? We won't do your homework for you, but if you give us where your heads at we can help point you in the right direction.

[bleedblue]

Hint: Filereader.

 

I won't do your homework for you. At least post something you've written and we'll  give pointers or corrections.

[PeshkovIntel]

It is C++. So i have the structure of the program already set up. But how do i get it to read the txt file. It keeps saying " Cannot locate file". Is there a certain location that the txt file needs to be in? 

[PeshkovIntel]

This is currently the state of my program 

 

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main () {
  string line;
  ifstream myfile ("employeeData.txt");
  if (myfile.is_open())
  {
    while ( myfile.good() )
    {
      getline (myfile,line);
      cout << line << endl;
    }
    myfile.close();
  }

  else cout << "Unable to open file";

  return 0;
}
 

[bleedblue]

1 minute ago, PeshkovIntel said:

It is C++. So i have the structure of the program already set up. But how do i get it to read the txt file. It keeps saying " Cannot locate file". Is there a certain location that the txt file needs to be in? 

Well that just means the file location you entered is wrong..

[bleedblue]

Just now, PeshkovIntel said:

 

When posting code, please format it like this.

public static void main(String args[]){
	//just an example I know this is Java
}

 

2 minutes ago, PeshkovIntel said:

  ifstream myfile ("employeeData.txt");

You need to put in the entire path to the file.

Like so ("D:/stuff/fileishere/file.txt");

[PeshkovIntel]

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main () {
  string line;
  ifstream myfile ("C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\Computer Programs\Assignment 02 EC\employeeData.txt");
  if (myfile.is_open())
  {
    while ( myfile.good() )
    {
      getline (myfile,line);
      cout << line << endl;
    }
    myfile.close();
  }

  else cout << "Unable to open file";

  return 0;
}

I'm still getting the same error. Everything is in the right location 

[reniat]

2 hours ago, PeshkovIntel said:

ifstream myfile ("C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\Computer Programs\Assignment 02 EC\employeeData.txt");

You're going to need to escape the \ by doing 

ifstream myfile("C:\\Users\\Mark\\Desktop\\Computer Programs\\Assignment 02 EC\\employeeData.txt");

 

Otherwise it thinks you are trying to use string literals (think of things like \n (newline), \t (tab), and \r (carriage return)). Things like this seem silly at first, but you catch on. Other than that I'm pretty sure this code should read in the data just fine. Nothing else sticks out as incorrect here.

[Dat Guy]

6 hours ago, bleedblue said:

You need to put in the entire path to the file.

Not necessarily.

[HunterAP]

In this situation it can be argued that the file location is easier to find through a relative path, not through an explicit one.

ifstream myfile("../employeeData.txt");

Should work as expected.

[Franck]

On 10/8/2018 at 11:05 PM, reniat said:

To start with, what have you tried so far, and what language is it? We won't do your homework for you, but if you give us where your heads at we can help point you in the right direction.

 

On 10/8/2018 at 11:06 PM, bleedblue said:

Hint: Filereader.

 

I won't do your homework for you. At least post something you've written and we'll  give pointers or corrections.

 

You guys sounds like hardcore Stack users. 

[SirReno]

what i would do is something like
------------
open input file
create/open output file
read line by line
    split each line by empty space
    process the values
    write on output
______________

keep in mind that you will need to look for many things if you decide to take this approach,


 

[bleedblue]

8 hours ago, Franck said:

 

 

You guys sounds like hardcore Stack users. 

...probably cuz i am