I am trying out to write a program that will use seekg() to navigate the various fields in a phone book.I want to get a function that will search a particular field and one that will delete a particular record.Any help will be appreciated.Send any help to [email protected]

seekg() puts the internal file pointer at the place in the file you specify. Then you can read from that point to examine the field that is there.

As for deleting a particular record, you need to read in the data into a string, change it, then write it back to the file. I don't think you can selectively write to a spot in a file--everything after that spot gets erased when you write.