Copy All Records to Another File Program in C Plus Plus

By | July 9, 2019

Task: Copy All Records to Another File Program in C Plus Plus

This program will open the source file in reading ( in ) mode. It will open the destination file in writing (out) mode. Then the program will read all records from source file one by one. And copy every record to destination file.

C++ Program to copy all record from binary file to another file

C++ Program to copy all record from binary file to another file

This record copy process is in a while loop. It will continue to copy records as long as end of file (source file) is not reached.
Finally, this C++ file copy program will display a message: ‘File Copied successfully’ etc.

The source code of Copy All Records to Another File Program in C Plus Plus

/* Write a C++ Program to copy all
records of a binary file 'cppfile.dat'
into'copyfile.dat' 
*/
#include<iostream>
#include<fstream>
#include<conio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string>
using namespace std;

struct student
{
int rollno;
char name[30];
}srecord;

int main()
{
char ans;

fstream file1, file2;
//opening source binary file in writing mode
// if we run this program again, it will
//overwrite the destination file	

file1.open("d://cppfile.dat",ios::binary |ios::in);

if(!file1)
{
cout<<"Source File could not open";
exit(0);
}

//opening destination binary file in reading mode	

file2.open("d://copyfile.dat",ios::binary |ios::out);

if(!file2)
{
cout<<"Destination File could not open";
exit(0);
}

while(!file1.eof())
{
file1.read((char*)&srecord,sizeof(srecord));
if(!file1.eof())
file2.write((char*)&srecord,sizeof(srecord));
}
file1.close();
file2.close();
cout<<"\nFile copied successfully.\n Thanks for visiting www.EasyCodebook.com";
return 0;
}

A sample run output :C++ Program to copy all record from binary file to another file

C++ Program to copy all record from binary file to another file

C++ Program to copy all record from binary file to another file

Output:

File copied successfully.
Thanks for visiting www.EasyCodebook.com
——————————–
Process exited after 4.238 seconds with return value 0
Press any key to continue . . .

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