Clearing out an input line

Hello,

I'm having a hell of a time trying to figure out how to do something pretty simple. What I'm trying to do is read in lines from a file and discard extra stuff after I've gotten what I want. Here's an example:

(DA, 15, 16, 5) blah blah blah
(NW, 11, 10, 23) blah

I want to extract the info between the parantheses, which I can do, but I also need to clear out the rest of the garbage (blah blah blah) on each line until I hit an end of line character. I can't get this to work for some reason and was wondering if anybody knew the right way to do it. Any help would be appreciated.

-Adam

Are you using c++ streams to do the read, or some other method? If you are using streams, are you using getline to read each line? For example:

in.getline(line,80);

you can use getline() and ignore() to help you parse the line

if the file doesn't contain the parenthesis but does contain the commas and spaces as listed and fin is ifstream associated with file where data is found then:

get first input
fin.getline(buffer, 3, ',')

ignore the space between frist and second input
fin.ignore(1, ' ');

get second input
fin.getline(buffer2, 3, ',')

ignore the space between second and third input
fin.ignore(1, ' ');

get third input as you did first and second

ignore space between third and fourth input

get fourth input using >> instead of getline as there is no comma delimiting fourth from fifth input

use getline() to read into dummy buffer that will be ignored in your code using say an 80 char buffer to be sure you can hold everything you want disregard, and using newline char as terminating char for getline.

now move on to the next line, etc.