fstream - clear data inside text file in c++

Question

I am programming on C++. In my code I create a text file, write data to the file and reading from the file using stream, after I finish the sequence I desire I wish to clear all the data inside the txt file. Can someone tell me the command to clear the data in the txt file. Thank you

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17032970/clear-data-inside-text-file-in-c

Answer 1

If you simply open the file for writing with the truncate-option, you'll delete the content.

std::ofstream ofs;
ofs.open("test.txt", std::ofstream::out | std::ofstream::trunc);
ofs.close();

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/fstream/ofstream/open/