Thread: help!!

Hi, I'm kinda new to C++ programming. Anyways my problem is that I want to read in a bunch of information from a text doc, but its converted from MS excel and some fields are left blank and I want to keep those fields blank when I read it in to a variable...
for example:
my input is something like this

1 location 3
1 a hi 4

I need to assign the information in each field to a different variable so I can do something with them later. So using getline() doesn't really work. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks

hehe, thx. I didn't know that C++ could read anything besides text docs!! hehe, thx