Codejam: File Input/Output in C++

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Please provide me the code snippet for taking inputs from .in files and output to .out files.

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See this article.

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See this.
After this just replace cin with “fin” and cout with “fout”(without quotes) everywhere you use them.
You need not create an output file.
It will automatically be created when you run the code in an IDE.

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Adding to the above answers yet another way is to use I/O redirection. Which is better in a sense that you don’t need to change code for testing on console or running on file.Also it is language independent. Here it goes,

  • Code using cin/cout or scanf/printf as you wish
  • Build the program (Say the final executable is prg.exe (on windows) or binary is ./prg (on linux))
  • Open Command prompt/ terminal , change to the directory(folder) where the program is using cd "path of directory"
  • run" prg.exe<a.in >a.out " or " ./prg<a.in>a.out " for windows / linux respectively

Make sure that a.in (or whatever the file is) is in the same directory(folder)

for more details refer to this link for windows

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For contests like Facebook Hacker Cup , Google Codejam , APAC you have to download an input file, generate an output file and then upload it within a given timer. So the best way to do it is :
Use Linux environment for this, Suppose input file name is input.txt. Your source file is Q1.cpp
Write this in command terminal -

g++ Q1.cpp ( for compiling)

./a.out <input.txt> output.txt (for generating output file )

You dont have to do anything else.
Happy Coding :slight_smile:

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Smply use this.

For taking inputs

freopen(“C:\Users\Shraeyas\Documents\pg\pr_ag\input.in”, “r”, stdin);

And for outputs…

freopen(“C:\Users\Shraeyas\Documents\pg\pr_ag\output.out”, “w”, stdout);

Since I keep both the input output files and source code in a different Disk drive so I have to write the whole path to access the input files. If you keep all the files in the same folder then you can simply use this…

For taking inputs

freopen(“input.in”, “r”, stdin);

And for outputs…

freopen(“output.out”, “w”, stdout);

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