Lecture 10

Question 1

What are the three main steps when a program is reading or writing to a file?

Answer 1

1. Opening the file
2. Reading from or writing to the file
3. Closing the file

Question 2

What is the fstream library?

Answer 2

It allows you to stream to and from files and create fstream type objects.

Question 3

What is an object?

Answer 3

It is like a variable and can be declared and/or initialized. An object can hold more than one piece of information and can have functions that “belong” with it.

Vectors and strings are also objects

Question 4

What is the type of an fstream object?

Answer 4

Fstream