Help with Class structure

[gettingatan]

I need help understanding how to use a Class structure to create a program that reads in two rational numbers and adds them, subtracts, multiplies, and divides them.

[sherre02]

I think this is what you're looking for.
Open to suggestions.
I know I'd rather have defined 'math' by pointer for memory-purposes, but this is a small program so I'm not too concerned about it.

#include <iostream>
#include <ifstream>

using namespace std;

class doTheMath{
protected:
    float a, b;
public:
    doTheMath(float, float);
    float add() {return a + b;}
    float subtract(){return a - b;}
    float divide(){return a / b;}
    float multiply(){return a * b;}
};
doTheMath::doTheMath(float num1, float num2){
    a = num1;
    b = num2;
}


int main(){
    ifstream file;
    float num1, num2;
    
    //****************************************
    // This section deals with all the file operations
    // It only reads from the file twice
    // It doesn't have safeguards against empty files
    //****************************************
    file.open("my_file.txt");
    if(file.fail()) return 0; // If this executes, the program is simply closed
    file >> num1; file >> num2;
    file.close();
    //****************************************

    doTheMath math(num1, num2); 
    // Creates new type from class doTheMath called math 

    cout << math.add() << endl;
    cout << math.subtract() << endl;
    cout << math.divide() << endl;
    cout << math.multiply() << endl;

    return 0;
}

[gettingatan]

This is great helping me understand the structure of Class thanks!
But this reads in a file. For this program i have to let the user enter two rational numbers at runtime and also have to validate what they have entered is in a fact a number and not junk

[N36fSL3A]

I personally thing a namespace would probably be better.

    file.open("my_file.txt");
    if(file.fail()) return 0; // If this executes, the program is simply closed
    file >> num1; file >> num2;
    file.close();

Just do this:

std::cout << "Numbers:"

cin >> num1;
cin >> num2;