Consider the following program segment. Which of the following statements at Line 3 can be used to open the file progdata.dat and input data from this file into x and y at Line 4?
A) inFile.open("progdata.dat");
B) inFile(open,"progdata.dat");
C) open.inFile("progdata.dat");
D) open(inFile,"progdata.dat");

Question

Consider the following program segment.  Which of the following statements at Line 3 can be used to open the file progdata.dat and input data from this file into x and y at Line 4?
A) inFile.open("progdata.dat"); 
B) inFile(open,"progdata.dat"); 
C) open.inFile("progdata.dat"); 
D) open(inFile,"progdata.dat");

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The correct syntax to open a file with ifstream is inFile.open("filename"). The other options provided do not follow the correct syntax and will result in a compilation error.

Consider the Following Program Segment