Please help me i am going crazy lol

[brianatwa07]

        ok heres what i got, i have a variable called "cardname1" and i saved that variable to a txt file like we did in lesson 47. then in a differant function() i displayed, the card name. and that all worked really good but here is what i wanna do with it. after i display the name back onto the consloe window i want to use it as a VARIABLE again. ii dont wanna just display the cardname but i wanna use it as a variable. someone please help me.     thank you.


  ifstream qfile("dept.txt");
    string qline;

   
    while(!qfile.eof()){

    getline(qfile,qline);
    // here is where i would like this to go back into a varable
      }

    cout << cardname1;

[Michael Hall]

If you read the value into a variable, then you should have it until the variable falls out of scope. My guess is that is the problem. You should try to declare it in a larger scope. If there's any confusion about that, you should watch our lesson on scope.

http://xoax.net/comp/cpp/console/Lesson11.php

Mike

[brianatwa07]

would scope matter if i completly close the program then reopen it, would the variables still be there.

[brianatwa07]

      you are right thanks so much your amazing. it was the scope!