Thread: File I/O and Strings

  1. #1
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    Unhappy File I/O and Strings

    Hello,

    I usually don't like to post on this forum because I would rather read a book or try and work it out myself, but for some reason I am just completely stuck on this.

    What I am trying to do, is load a text file from start to finish loading each line into a vector of strings.

    For example, if the file contained:

    hello
    this
    is
    a
    forum

    Then a vector of strings
    vector <string>
    0 would be hello
    1 would be this
    2 would be is
    3 would be a
    4 would be forum

    I have been trying to do this with the fstream.h header file, but I am just continually getting errors, or compile problems.



    I would post code, but I have attempted it so many times I wouldn't know which one to paste. I am looking for an example now.

    Thanks for any help, and please keep the flames to a minimum.
    - Chris

  2. #2
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    Something like -

    Code:
    #include <iostream> 
    #include <fstream> 
    #include <vector>
    #include <algorithm>
    #include <string>
    
    using namespace std; 
    
    int main() 
    { 
    	//Assumes text file is in program dir
    	ifstream i("t.txt");
    
    	vector<string> s;
    
    	copy(istream_iterator<string>(i),istream_iterator<string>(),back_inserter(s));
    
    	copy(s.begin(),s.end(),ostream_iterator<string>(cout,"\n"));
    
    	return 0;
    
    }

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    Code:
    #include <fstream>
    #include <string>
    #include <vector>
    
    using namespace std;
    
    int main()
    {
     vector<string> TheLines;
    
     string currentLine;
    
     fstream input ("input.txt");
     while( ! input.eof() )
     {
       getline(input,currentLine);
       TheLines.push_back(currentLine);  //add the current line to the end of the vector
     }
    
     input.close();
     return(0);
    }
    That is another way of doing it with out using the algorithim header file, which is sometimes easier to under stand for beginners

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