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[roots]

I am having trouble thinking of a way to structure this program.
I have 10+ items in stock.
I want to prompt the user how many of each he should have.
I then want to subtract by however many the user wishes.
The information must be retained when restarting the program.

i know i am going to need to get into file handling.
However, is this were inheritance comes into play in classes. Having so many items, is it best to have each item in a derived class? I do not really know the direction to go with this. Should i just start coding? will it all make sense lol...

[48T7M4Gy]

Classes are possible but you are still left with the problem of managing the stock levels. So possibility is structs. Look carefully at the attributes you want.

have a plan, it's better than doing the coding without one. :)

[roots]

So i need to allocate memory for an array of the number of items correct?
I will ask the user for number of items and each item name for the first run of the program. I am still confused on where the array would come into play.

[48T7M4Gy]

Well, If you know how many items and they stay the same, ie the array is a constant and known size then you don't.

[roots]

So storing the number in a text file is enough. I don't believe I need an array.
I will just store the name along with the integer and manipulate each every time I need to from there.

I eventually would like to add gui to this.

[48T7M4Gy]

So storing the number in a text file is enough.

Go for it. There's nothing wrong with persistent memory.