What's the correct way to do a "catch all" error check on an fstream output operation?
- by Truncheon
What's the correct way to check for a general error when sending data to an fstream?
UPDATE: My main concern regards some things I've been hearing about a delay between output and any data being physically written to the hard disk. My assumption was that the command "save_file_obj << save_str" would only send data to some kind of buffer and that the following check "if (save_file_obj.bad())" would not be any use in determining if there was an OS or hardware problem. I just wanted to know what was the definitive "catch all" way to send a string to a file and check to make certain that it was written to the disk, before carrying out any following actions such as closing the program.
I have the following code...
int Saver::output()
{
save_file_handle.open(file_name.c_str());
if (save_file_handle.is_open())
{
save_file_handle << save_str.c_str();
if (save_file_handle.bad())
{
x_message("Error - failed to save file");
return 0;
}
save_file_handle.close();
if (save_file_handle.bad())
{
x_message("Error - failed to save file");
return 0;
}
return 1;
}
else
{
x_message("Error - couldn't open save file");
return 0;
}
}
