Please help, I'm new to C++ and struggling with this problem.
I have an array of char and an array of double declared in main as follow: (Please ignore uc1601 and UF_UI codes because they are Ug/Open API user function.)

int flag;
char *variables[36];
double values[36];

then a call to read from file in main:

flag = read_variables(variables,value);









In the read_variables function I have:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
    using std::ios;
    using std::ifstream;
    using std::istream;
    using std::fstream;

#include <string>
#include <sstream>

int read_variables(char*[],double []);


int read_variables (char *variables_name,double variables_value[])
{
    const char textfile[133] = {"C:\\My
    Documents\\Project_VC\\Key_retainer\\variables_fil e.txt"};

    char name[133], msg[133];
    double value;
    int ok;

    ifstream OpenToRead(textfile, ios::in);
      if (!OpenToRead)
    {
          sprintf(msg ,"Can not open this %s \n file to
                        read ",textfile );
          uc1601(msg, 1);
          return (1);
    }
    else
    {
           UF_UI_open_listing_window();

       for (int i = 0; i < variable_count; i++)
       {
         OpenToRead >> name >> value;
         variables_name[i] = name;
         variables_value[i] = value;
       }

        OpenToRead.close();

    for (int i = 0; i<variable_count; i++)
    {
      sprintf(msg ,"variable %s = %2.4f\n", variables_name[i],
                        variables_value[i]);
      UF_UI_write_listing_window(msg);

    }
 }

Here are my problems:
1) The variables_name[] print out only the last variable that read from the file. but the variables_value[] print out correct.
2) I print it agian back in main and I got the same result.
3) Why it only retain 1 name (last one in the file)

Here are ehat in the file:
.
.
.
UNDERCUT_THICKNESS 33
UNDERCUT_ANGLE 34
WINDOW_WIDTH 35
UNDERCUT_WIDTH 36
BLIND_SLOT_HOLE_DIA 0.195

And here are what it print out:
variable BLIND_SLOT_HOLE_DIA = 33.0000
variable BLIND_SLOT_HOLE_DIA = 34.0000
variable BLIND_SLOT_HOLE_DIA = 35.0000
variable BLIND_SLOT_HOLE_DIA = 36.0000
variable BLIND_SLOT_HOLE_DIA = 0.1950



Please help! I'm struggling with this problem all day yesterday.
Many thanks in advance.
Dang

Oooopppsss! Please replace the function parameters with:

int read_variables (char *variables_name[],double variables_value[])