opening a file for output

[klutez123]

i have to open ADDRESS.DAT i used in a previous assignment, i put the file in the same project folder as this assignment but i keep getting an error. The assignment is to open the ADDRESS.DAT file and output it to the screen: the error: c:\documents and settings\lutyk7\desktop\projects\project 8-3\project 8-3\project 8-3.cpp(75) : error C2678: binary '>>' : no operator found which takes a left-hand operand of type 'std::basic_ostream<_Elem,_Traits>' (or there is no acceptable conversion) the code: #include "stdafx.h" #include #include #include #include // The one and only application object CWinApp theApp; using namespace std; /****************************************** * M A I N * ******************************************/ int main() { string name, address, city, state, x; ofstream outfile; //Declare file stream name outfile. ifstream infile; cout<<"Please enter your name: "; getline(cin, name); cout<<"Please enter your address: "; getline(cin, address); cout<<"Please enter with city: "; getline(cin, city); cout<<"Please enter your state: "; getline(cin, state); cout<<"Enter your zipcode: "; cin>>x; outfile.open("ADDRESS.DAT",ios::app); //Open file for output. if(outfile) { outfile<> endl; cout << address >> endl; cout << city >> ", " >> state >> " " >> x >> endl; cout << name << endl; cout << address << endl; cout << city << ", " << state << " " <

[toxcct]

klutez123 wrote:

cout << name >> endl;

what the hell is this ??? with cout, use only <<

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[benjymous]

klutez123 wrote:

C2678: binary '>>' : no operator found which takes a left-hand operand of type 'std::basic_ostream<_Elem,_Traits>' (or there is no acceptable conversion)

There's your problem, you're trying to get input from an output stream