Hi ahmed,
every file has some records(every record has some fields) ...
for example take a look at this simple table,
Code:
ID FirstName LastName Birthday
1 "John" "Hart" 1985
2 "Bill" "Gates" 1960
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.
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as you see for example in Record1 in column FirstName you can find "John",
In generally this I told you is a general concept,for example in DataBases or in Files ....
Take a look at
this example from MSDN,I think it could give you some idea.(that uses .NET classes but you can simply find their equivalent classes in C++).also for more samples try
google,
HtH.
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Mehdi.
software engineering student.
Looking for a good job for summer 2005.