C++ How to Program, Sixth Edition

Chapter 17. File Processing

	I read part of it all the way through.
	--Samuel Goldwyn

	A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.
	--John Henry, Cardinal Newman

	I can only assume that a “Do Not File” document is filed in a “Do Not File” file.
	--Senator Frank Church Senate Intelligence Subcommittee Hearing, 1975

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• To create, read, write and update files.

• Sequential file processing.

• Random-access file processing.

• To use high-performance unformatted I/O operations.

• The differences between formatted-data and raw-data file processing.

• To build a transaction-processing program using random-access file processing.

Outline
17.1	Introduction
17.2	Data Hierarchy
17.3	Files and Streams ...