Thread: Reading multiple data from text files

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    Reading multiple data from text files

    So I have been working through notes on text files and I have came to a problem with reading multiple data from a textfile. The program has to take the surname and a value from the textfile, so my textfile looks something like this.

    Ogilvie, 1000
    O’Donovan, 1000
    Day, 15000
    Zarrug, 12000
    MacGregor, 5000
    Friel, 6000

    The pseudocode looks like this.

    readInFile
    open salesFile for reading
    index=0
    while not end of file and index < max
    input from salesFile into names[index]
    input from salesFile into sales[index]
    index=index + 1
    end-while
    count=index
    close salesFile

    My actual code looks like this.

    Code:
     void readInFile()
    {
    	ifstream salesFile ("c:\\sales.txt");
    	index = 0;
    	while ((!salesFile.eof()) && (index < MAX))
    	{
    		getline (salesFile, names[index])
    		
    		index = index + 1;
    	}
    	count = index;
    	salesFile.close();
    }
    Is there anyway I can take the name and store it into an array and take the number and store it into another array by using the comma to seperate the name from the number.

    Thanks in advance.

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    Once you read the entire line in, check each character to see if it is a comma, then skip the space and put the remaining characters in another array. Then convert the numbers to an integer.

    Some useful functions you might want to use.
    strncmp()
    strcmp()
    atoi()

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    Quote Originally Posted by scwizzo View Post
    Some useful functions you might want to use.
    strncmp()
    strcmp()
    atoi()
    It is not C++ way. I prefer stringstream and operator>>.

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