More About Files

How else could you use this?

• Pre-populate a file for an on-line store, then read it back.  For example, fill a file like this with book information.  Display a list of books on one page, when the user clicks a link for a specific book, it will display detailed information in another page.  This information is pulled from a data file like this.
• Keep user account information in a file.
• Keep shipping details in a file.
• Keep a page count in a file: simply store a single number in a file.  Read that number, add one, and write back.  Use write > , not append >> , so that only one number increments.  If not, you will have a file full of numbers!
• Don't worry about getting too complex!
• Complex data manipulation is made for databases.
• As long as you read from or write to a file, you have satisfied one of the requirements for the final.  You don't have to read and write, but you might find a good use to do so.
• Reading from an inventory file, for example.
• Generating an HTML page, similar to the registration page of this class.
• Keeping count of visitors.
• Generating an e-mail also counts.