I could barely work out what he was trying to do - got my 5 for the translation to SQL /jason

Binary, Your problem exists here: while (fin >> (search)) { count++; } You are reading a "word" from your file and storing it in the string that you declared to hold your search term. Instead, reuse the filename variable or declare a new one. while (fin >> (filename)) { // If the "word" in filename equals the // word in search, then count++; } "we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems." -deKorvin on uncertainty -- modified at 16:04 Wednesday 23rd November, 2005

Use a while loop, rfind the space, cout the word and in the next round rfind beginning at the position before the last space. If you cant even use the while loop skip the lessons until you can...:-D "We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation." -- Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A.D.

As Mr.Prakash says, what do you mean by "can't get my output lined up"? Include a sample of the output of your program, showing the problem (AND MAYBE AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU WANT.) My approach would be to use sprintf() function, to generate a string with the right formatting before using cout(), but that is just because I am happier with C-style printf() and its parameters than the weird new-wave C++ approach (using cout() and setw() etc.)

Binary0110 wrote: ...but I keep getting errors. Such as? Binary0110 wrote: double payment=(mrate*(1+mrate)* exp (n)/((1+mrate)* exp(n)-1))*l; Make sure the numeric constants are floating point values, like: double payment=(mrate*(1.0+mrate)* exp (n)/((1.0+mrate)* exp(n)-1.0))*l; "Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it." - Native American Proverb

Thank you so much you people are my heroes BINARY

Christian Graus wrote: That sucks it was only a suggestion. i never said to use it and nothing else... TOXCCT >>> GEII power [toxcct][VisualCalc]

if you are showing an ID field in your list you can use the id ( whenever is selected by the user) and select the record and then show its field in your text boxes. for example: using System.Data; using System.Data.OleDb; public void listbox_click(object sender,EventArgs e) { string selecet_string="SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE id="+listbox.selectedItem.ToString(); DataSet ds=new DataSet(); OleDbDataAdapter adapter=new OleDbDataAdapter(select_string,cnn) //you should pass your own connection object. adapter.Fill(ds); //Then you can fill the text boxes textBox1.Text=ds.Tables[0].Rows[0][0].ToString(); //etc. }

I want to be able to type a string into an input box or text box that would match itself with a field in the database then show me the results in a listbox. Then by clicking on the list box pull up the entire record. BINARY

lol , I like that.

use the system.net.dns refrence u can get many method Ishak

Hye Right click on the project and go to properties. In the build option you can change the icon. As far the links in Start menu are concerned. Add a deployment project. and create a short cut in User Program menu for your output exe. and in the short cut properties you can change the icon. cheers....

thx that worked BINARY

By the bootstrabber from : http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/tools/bootstrapper/default.aspx[^] It will first check if the .net is present it will launch the setup of your program,otherwise it will setup the .NET and follow it with your program's setup automatically.

try this IsNumeric("$1") returns true this is wrong.

It may bomb there as well but I haven't gotten that far BINARY

nope nothing, If any one could build a sample to show me where I'm going wrong. I've heard something about header information in the field. BINARY