Input/Output devices

[Rikasi]

can someone explain or direct me to how input can be entered from an input device like a scanner into a program and how a program can be used to manipulate spreadsheets or table files

[jonnin]

You need to interface to some library functions to get from the scanner. I would try a google on "read scanner c++ "myosname" or "myidename" " to see what you need to do. There is probably a working example program you can rip from.

I write CSV text files and use that. Writing in spreadsheet format directly also takes a library for the desired application, or learning the binary file format of the spreadsheet. Pretty sure visual and MSDN provides an excel writer in there somewhere, but what library that is, I have no clue.