I'm having trouble implementing a world for Conway's game of life from a file rather than making a vector with a world inside (manual input). So far this code works if I remove the file input portion and use my own world to make a new generation (Like just typing the contents of world.txt into a vector). Unfortunately I can't figure out how to connet the file connects and the game of life rules to output into a file. This is what I got so far:

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include

#include

using namespace std;

void computeNextGeneration();

vector > world;

ifstream fin;

ofstream fout;

int main() {

char c = ' ';

vector > world;

fin.open("world.txt");

fout.open("Report.txt");

world.push_back(vector ());

size_t row = 0;

cout << "Original Generation:" << endl;

for (int i = 0; i

for (int j = 0; j

cout << world[i][j] << " ";

}

cout << endl;

}

cout << endl;

computeNextGeneration();

system("pause");

return 0;

}

void computeNextGeneration() {

int m = world.size();

int n = world[0].size();

vector< vector >newWorld;

for (int i = 0; i

std::vectorrowVector(n, false);

newWorld.push_back(rowVector);

}

for (int row = 1; row

for (int colum = 1; colum < world[row].size() - 1; colum++) {

int aliveCell = 0;

for (int k = -1; k <= 1; k++)

for (int l = -1; l <= 1; l++)

aliveCell += world[row + k][colum + l];

aliveCell -= world[row][colum];

if ((world[row][colum] == true) && (aliveCell < 2)) {

newWorld[row][colum] = false;

}

else

if ((world[row][colum] == true) && (aliveCell > 3)) {

newWorld[row][colum] = false;

}

else

if ((world[row][colum] == false) && (aliveCell == 3)) {

newWorld[row][colum] = true;

}

else

if ((world[row][colum] == true) && (aliveCell == 3)) {

newWorld[row][colum] = true;

}

else {

newWorld[row][colum] = world[row][colum];

}

}

}

cout << "The next generation:" << endl;

for (int i = 0; i

for (int j = 0; j

cout << newWorld[i][j] << " ";

fout << newWorld[i][j] << " ";

}

cout << endl;

}

}

world.txt

{ 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 }, { 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 }, { 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 }, { 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 }, { 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 }, { 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 }, { 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0 }, { 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0 }, { 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,0 }, { 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 }

The idea is that given the world from the file, we can apply the game of life rules and continously allow the generations to breed more. (Must be vectors, not arrays)