Hey I'm pritty new to porgramming and am sort of teaching myself some basics
of Visual C++ but when I made a textbox with a variable of m_Payments and
m_Principal and enter the following code

ifstream myfile(FileName);
myfile >> Principal >> Payment;
m_Principal = Principal; // Principal is the name of a float
m_Payments = Payment; // Payment is the name of a float
UpdateData(FALSE);
myfile.close();

I get a | in my edit box or an .  How do I make it so that I just get a
number lik 3.01 or 6.84 or 1973.87 to display right? Its so confusing.  if
you can can you email the answer? ty.

Gary Morrison

Analysis of the problem would need to know the data type of m_Principal.  

To take control of the display format you can make m_Principal a CString type.
Then do    m_Principal.Format("%f4.2", Principal);
           UpdateData(FALSE);

This makes m_Principal a string of characters formatted as you specify after the
%f.

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Scott McPhillips [VC++ MVP]