I could use some help with a file i/o issue. I'm using simple fstream objects to read in a Unicode file, search it for a particular string, and print the line if it contains that string. Here's a snippet of my function: getline(traceFile, buffer); //pass getline the file stream object and string buffer pos = buffer.find(hr, 0); //set the position of string hr if found if (pos != string::npos) outFile << "Line Number " << count <<":"<< buffer <

Excellent. Even though I'm a beginner, I can still speak g(r)eek now and then. :)

Sweet. Thanks. ..so, let's pretend for a minute that I'm not a layman(which I am). What are the gory details?

I'm new to programming and am having trouble figuring out what the following syntax means when defining a function and it's arguments: VOID myFunc( IN PCHAR stuff, OUT BOOLEAN test ); What is the purpose of IN, OUT? What is this called? I haven't been able to find a good explanation because these are such common words, and I'm not sure what this syntax is called. Thank you.