Art Cummings wrote:

> does the write function have a return type?

The write function from basic_ostream returns a basic_ostream&.


> I've got a write statement
> that isn't writing and I wanted to see if there is a way to do error
> checking.

The returned reference refers to the stream and you could check the flags.


> student.write(reinterpret_cast<char *>(&studentInfo),sizeof(studentInfo));

"student" is a rather peculiar name for a stream.



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Kai-Uwe Bux