Question

I’m trying to output a vector of string objects to a file. However, my code only
outputs the first two elements of each string.

The piece of code below writes:

1
1

to a file. Rather then:

01-Jul-09
01-Jul-10

which is what I need.

ofstream file("dates.out");  

vector<string> Test(2); 

Test[0] = "01-Jul-09"; 
Test[1] = "01-Jul-10"; 

for(unsigned int i=0; i<Test.size(); i++)    
     file << Test[i] << endl;

file.close();

Is not clear to me what could be going wrong as I have used string objects
before in similar contexts.

Any help would be welcome!

Answer 1

As already observed, the code appears fine, so:

• Are you looking at the right dates.out after your program runs? Did you verify the date/time on the file you’re looking at to make sure it isn’t previous data?
• Do you have permission to write to the file? Perhaps your program is failing to overwrite existing data.
• Did you show us ALL the important code? Are there any other function calls we need to know about? Does the code in Marcelo/ereOn’s answers produce the same problem as in your question?
• Are you sure that you’re running the binary you think you are? (PATH issues possibly).