I am a learning c++ and have a class project due in 5 days. I've spent 4 hours researching how to do this however I have not come up with an answer yet. Save me stack!
Problem. I have a pointer to a class which holds a dynamic array. I need to take that array and save it to a file to retrieve later. Here are my 2 headers and the implementation. I am not writing the code to "save to file" yet as that will be easy once I get around this issue. My problem is it keeps printing the address of the pointer and not the data within.
vehReg.h
class vehReg {
public:
/* STUFF */
};
}
#endif
vehData.h
#include "vehReg.h"
using namespace std;
class vehData {
public:
//CONSTRUCTORS
vehData();
//DECONSTRUCTOR
~vehData();
//METHODS
friend ostream &operator<<( ostream &output, const vehData &v);
private:
typedef unsigned long longType;
typedef std::size_t sizeType;
sizeType used,capacity;
vehReg *data;
};
}
#endif
vehData.cpp
//CONSTRUCTOR
vehData::vehData(){
capacity = 5;
used = 0;
data = new vehReg[capacity];
}
//DECONSTRUCTOR
vehData::~vehData(){
delete []data;
}
/* TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH THIS WITH AN OSTREAM OVERLOAD */
void vehData::saveDataSloppy(){
ofstream myFile;
myFile.open ("database.db");
for(int i=0;i<used;i++){
myFile << data[i].getOwnerName() << "|";
myFile << data[i].getVehicleLicense() << "|";
myFile << data[i].getVehicleMake() << "|";
myFile << data[i].getVehicleModel() << "|";
myFile << data[i].getVehicleYear() << "\n";
}
myFile.close();
}
void vehData::saveData(){
cout << data;
}
ostream &operator<<(ostream &stream, const vehData &v){
stream << v.data;
}
}