HOTs Questions
1.Write a program that copies one file to another. Has the program to take the file names from the users? Has the
program to refuse copy if there already is a file having the target name?
2.Write a program that appends the contents of one file to another. Have the program take the filenames from the
user.
3.Write a program that reads character from the keyboard one by one. All lower case characters get store inside
the file LOWER, all upper case characters get stored inside the file UPPER and all other characters get stored
inside OTHERS.
4.Write a program to search the name and address of person having age more than
30 in the data list of persons.
6.What are the steps involved in using a file in a C++ program?
7.Describe the various classes available for file operations.
8.Discuss the two methods of opening a file within a C++ program. When is one method preferred over the other?
9.How many file objects would you need to create to manage the following situations? Explain
(i) to process three files sequentially
(ii) to merge two sorted files into a third file
10.Both ios::ate and ios::app place the file pointer at the end of the file when it is opened. What then, is the difference between them?
11.When a file is opened for output what happens when
(i) the mentioned file does not exist.
(ii) the mentioned file does exist.
12.When do you think text files should be preferred over binary files?