the endl that you are outputting after every number is what causes the newline to be output. Just control when you output an endl. "You're obviously a superstar." - Christian Graus about me - 12 Feb '03 "Obviously ???  You're definitely a superstar!!!" - mYkel - 21 Jun '04 "There's not enough blatant self-congratulatory backslapping in the world today..." - HumblePie - 21 Jun '05 Within you lies the power for good - Use it!

I'm sure that this cannot be done using conventional arrays. The way I would do it would be to use a linked list. That way, the years could be in any order, and years could be missed out if required. class node { private : int year; int value; node * pointToPrevious; public : node() { } node(int y, int v, node * p) { year = y; value = v; pointToPrevious = p; } }; For fuller notes on linked lists as I teach it, please email me : simon.cornish@tesco.net Regards Simon

Hello, The __int64 is not supported by the standard, but it is rather compiler specific. The C standard has support for a 64 bit integer: long long. See here[^] for more information. You always can write the number in hexadecimal in two steps: first write the upper 32 bits and then the lower 32 bits. :) Behind every great black man...             ... is the police. - Conspiracy brother Blog[^]

As Christian is saying, if you're going to use a file where you're manually reading every line, then by definition, you'll have to manually parse the comment lines and ignore them. This is one argument for using XML as with XML you can specifically read data-only nodes and not read comment-nodes.

Hi Senthil Thanks a lot for your response. I've actually found that you are partly right. I can't send the whole map at once for the reasons that you point out. However, if you send the map element by element it does work like a charm. For me, the reason to work with this containers is because I need to read a humongous file and then find a record or a series of records associated to a tag or tags (in which case I'd use a multimap). These containers have algorithms that make the search process incredibly fast and easy. If you are interested in the new version of the code (the one that works) I'll be happy to post it. Cheers Carlos

Unless the array is always the same size, the first thing you need to do is write the array bounds, so you know what to do with the data when you read it. Then you can read it in, a single number at a time, or a row at a time if you'd like. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ knapak wrote: SORRY FOR THE REPEAT PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS ONE OK - please delete the other one... Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

In C ( which C++ is built on ), you use a function called ( I think ) OpenFile, and get a FILE object back. That's what I meant. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Hello, The standard implies that when a floating point value is converted to a intergral value, the fractional part is discarded... I also got the blogging virus..[^]

You could use the backspace (^H, ASCII 8) character to return to the start of the line in order to overwrite it. /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | Freeware | Music ravib@ravib.com

well... that sucks... :doh: thanks anyway!

couldn't you just edit your post ?:suss: TOXCCT >>> GEII power [toxcct][VisualCalc]

Thank you!!!

STL is the Standard Template Library. It's part of the definition of the C++ language, so any correctly written code should work on all compliant implementations of STL.

Thank you! Carlos

YOU ARE AWSOME!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! CARLOS