Easiest way to scan string to parse out it's parts?

I input a line from a file, into a string called line. I then want to scan it to get all the individual parts of it, but I'm unsure of how to do that in c++.

Here's my code:

Code:

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getline (myfile, line);
// sscanf(line, "%s %s %s %s", &nickName, &firstName, &secondName, &thirdName);
// the sscanf line is what I'm trying to do

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It's in a specific format the file I'm scanning in, so it's always 3 or 4 words, separated by spaces (the middle name is sometimes included, sometimes not)

You may want to consider using a stringstream to process your string. You could then use the extraction operator>> to extract the different strings to their respective variables.


Jim

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Originally Posted by jimblumberg

You may want to consider using a stringstream to process your string. You could then use the extraction operator>> to extract the different strings to their respective variables.

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you could do that direct from the file, if you know that each line will only ever contain those fields

The problem with doing this directly from the file is that the possible missing name will cause problems. With the stringstream it will be easier, in my opinion, to detect this problem because the last entry will be blank, not the name from the next line in the file.

Jim

Jim can you show me an example of what such a line would look like? Scanning for 4 words in the string?

Did you read the link I provided in my last post. That link has links to several other pages that show examples. For instance this sub-link.

Jim

std::getline does have a delimiter, so:

Code:

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std::vector<std::string> tokens;
std::string line;
while (std::getline(myfile, line, ' '))
  tokens.push_back(line);

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This is also more efficient than stringstream