File Handling

• The stages to write data to a file are:

  • open the file for creating / overwriting / appending to a file
  • write the data to a file
• The states to read data from a file are:

  • open the file for reading data
  • assign a boolean variable to 'false' to indicate the end of the file is not reached
  • while the end of the file is false and the search item is not found:
  • read the data from the file
  • if the data matches what is being searched for, assign the data to variables or output
  • check if the end of the file has been reached and assign the boolean variable to true
  • close file