This is a C++ project I am making. It makes incorporating .txt files into a C++ project so much easier than ever before. You can read certain values from a text file, you can also write certain values to a text file aswell.
Obviously, that is not everything in the project / library. If you want to look at all of the features, there is a file called docs.txt inside of the project. You can open that file and read all of the features there. or you could scroll down to the features section in this file.
Here is a list of steps to do on how to install the project.
- Download the project you need to hit the green code button and download the project as a .zip file.
- Open the project next, open up the file and go into the src folder and copy and paste all of the files into your own project.
- Include the files then, you need to include the includes.h file inside of your main project file. or you could use the template.cpp file and everything will be included.
- Use the code finally, you can start coding! If you need help, you can visit the docs.txt file inside the help folder. Have fun!
Okay, so let's say that you have some sort of application and there is a settings menu. You could use this project / library to save the user's settings and load those settings when you reatart the application.
Normally, this would take a while to just read and write those settings, but with txtToCpp, it could be done very easily.
TxtToCpp is the best library for incorparating .txt files into your C++ project.
Firstly, to install TxtToCpp, you need to download the library. In Github, you need to hit the green code button and hit download as zip. Then you have sucsessfully installed the library.
If you want to include this into your own project, you need to copy and paste the files in the "src" folder. Then type this:
#include "TxtToCpp.h"Then you can start coding!
To use TxtToCpp, there are a lot of different function that you can use. Luckily, I will show you guys here all of the functions in TxtToCpp.
txtcpp::writeText(std::string filename, std::string text);This function allows you to write text to a file. First, you put in the name of the file you want to write to. Then, you put in the text you want to write.
txtcpp::replaceText(std::string filename, std::string searchText, std::string replaceText);This function allows you to replace text in a file with other text. The first paramater is the filename, the second is the text you want. to replace, and the third is the text you want to replace it with.
txtcpp::readFile(std::string filename, const char* commentSymbol, bool includeComments);This function allows you to read the file to the console. The first paramater is the filename, the second is the symbol that you want to be the comment in the text file. The third is a true or false paramater that you can tell the program to read the comments or not.
txtcpp::replaceCommentSymbolInFile(string filename, const char* oldSymbol, const char* newSymbol);This function allows you to replace a comment symbol in a file. It looks at the first character on each line. The first paramater is the filename, the next one is the symbol you want to look for. The last one is the symbol you want to replace it with. Remember that the oldSymbol and newSymbol are const chars. That means you have to put the character inside of 'single quotes'.
txtcpp::getIntValue(string fileName, string search, int& value, bool skipComments, char commentSymbol);
txtcpp::getDoubleValue(string fileName, string search, double& value, bool skipComments, char commentSymbol);
txtcpp::getBoolValue(string fileName, string search, bool& value, bool skipComments, char commentSymbol);
txtcpp::getStringValue(string fileName, string search, string& value, bool skipComments, char commentSymbol);
txtcpp::getCharValue(string fileName, string search, char& value, bool skipComments, char commentSymbol); These functions allow you to search for certian pices of text inside of a .txt file. You could search for certain values inside of that text file, this is helpfull because for example you could have a settings.txt file for an application and you could look for those values. I think the paramaters are pretty self explanitory.