I agree with Sauro. If I'd seen the question here before I went to the effort of answering it in QA, I wouldn't have taken the trouble. Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.

people seem to fall into traps like this -- when they try to be cool. there's no good reason to combine several distinct operations into single statement. one thing I've learned in my years is that 'cool is costly' -- you could spend many many hours trying to debug that mistake. write it simply and clearly (and readable) -- the compiler will optimize it for you. -p ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter Weyzen Staff Engineer [SoonR Inc -- PC Power delivered to your phone](http://www.soonr.com)

Thank you. Thank you very much for ur support. And ofcourse thank you for tolerating me as well..(as commented by Rajesh) French is the language of love, for everything else there is c++ ...(anonymous)

dubeypankaj wrote: Can i get any example to utilize strcmp() in MFC. Heck, you're asking for example in MFC, so I'm giving you the MFC solution : have a look at CString::Compare and CString::CompareNoCase This signature was proudly tested on animals.

Read the file in binary mode completly in a buffer, and than you can do what you want. :-\ Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany

A friend function basically gives access to the internal data members of a class to an external function. This can definitely be achieved using getters and setters. But in reality friend functions are not used for this purpose. For example, if you look at the CStringT class, the overloaded + operator is declared as a friend function. This is so that the + operator can be used to concatenate two string in the following 2 ways CString cs1 = L"Hello"; CString cs2 = L"World"; CString cs3 = L""; cs3 = cs1 + L" World"; cs3 = L"Hello " + cs2; If the + operator was an ordinary member function of the CStringT class, then only the first call would have been possible. «_Superman_» I love work. It gives me something to do between weekends.

dubeypankaj wrote: Thanx for the adjective used for me(Worst Practice Foundation user). It wasn't used for you, it was for my sample code (see [^])... In a bad mood today? :-D I just wanted to make Vunic aware that, yes, there might be problems with self-assignment. Of course the link provided by led mike spots the point far better than I did. :) If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile. This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke [My articles]