Re: Help getFileHandle()

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From: André Pönitz
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:08

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In gnu.g++.help Maya <escalante@canada.com> wrote:
> Opening and closing files is such a routine that I want to write a class
> that will handle the opening and closing of files, and I have already done
> most of the work. My problems is when I want to get the file handle, I
> don't know how to do this, exactly. Below is the part of the class that is
> causing the problem

If you want to use that "handle" reference for writing, it can't be const.

>          const std::fstream&  getFileHandle() { return f;               }

  std::fstream&  getFileHandle() { return f; }

But what's the benefit of your class over "plain" fstream?

Andre'

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