throwing away spaces and \n

Hey,
quick question. I am reading in numbers from a file. I need to read them in one at a time. In the file there are spaces and endlines that I need to get rid of. I have tried several ways of doing this but none work. Any help would be appreciated.

Here is what I have so far:

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

//global variables
ifstream infile;
ofstream outfile;
struct node;
typedef node* nodeptr;

struct node
{
	int digit;
	char num;
	nodeptr next;
};

//prototypes
void readIn(nodeptr &,nodeptr &);
int charConvert(char);//num conversion fxn


int main()
{
	nodeptr start, last;
	readIn(start,last);

	return 0;
}
//Functions
void readIn(nodeptr &start,nodeptr &last)
{
	char c,d;
	nodeptr current;
	char temp;

infile.open("lnums.dat");
if(!infile)
	{
		cout << "error" << endl;
		exit(1);
	}
while(!infile.eof())
{
	//c=infile.get(temp);
	c=(char)infile.get();
	if((c==' ')&&(c=='\n'))
	{
		temp=c;	
	}
else
{
	d=c;
	
}
cout << d;





//START sorting
	current=new node;
	//strcpy(current->num,temp);
	current->num=temp;
	current->next=start;
	start=current;

	int charConvert(temp);
}

}
int charConvert(char a)
{
	int x;
	x=a-48;
return x;
}

umm, im not really sure but try this or something like this...

Code:

ifstream in;
char c;
int buf;
in.open("myfile.txt",ios::in); //I think... 
while(in.get(c))
	while(c!='\n' || c!=' ')
	{
		buf = atoi(c);	
		//Todo code here
	}

Very cool idea. I tried it and it gave me this error:

error C2664: 'atoi' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'char' to 'const char *'

the code looks like this:

Code:

while(!infile.eof())
{
	c=(char)infile.get();
	while(c==' '|| c=='\n')
	{
		temp=atoi(c);	
	}

Just an idea off the top of my head, assuming there are never more than 1 space in a row:

Code:

char buffer[256]; //assuming the max number of characters
                       //on a line is 256
std::vector<int> numbers;
while(true)
{
     file.getline(buffer, 256);
     if(file.eof())
          break;

     int pos = 0;
     for(int i = 0; i < file.gcount(); ++i)
     {
          if(buffer[i] == ' ')
          {
               std::string temp;
               temp.append(buffer[pos], i - pos);
               numbers.push_back(atoi(temp.c_str()));
               pos = i + 1;
          }
     }
}

Something like that, gets a line, and goes through the input pulling out individual sections separated by 1 space each.

Why are you using the get() function? The >> operator automatically disregards white space when looking for numerical input. You can just do this:

Code:

infile >> c;

If you did that, you wouldn't have to worry about disregarding white space in your input file.

Oh, and don't use global variables. That is bad. Don't do it. You should pass the ofstream and ifstream objects from main() to the functions that use them.

Oops lol I was thinking of what happens when the text file includes letters and symbols too instead of just numbers Guess my way didn't do it any better either...

Originally posted by joshdick
Why are you using the get() function? The >> operator automatically disregards white space when looking for numerical input. You can just do this:

Code:

infile >> c;

If you did that, you wouldn't have to worry about disregarding white space in your input file.

I think the file he is trying to get numbers like
1234211523 and take them individually or pick them apart or I don't know. But if it is like this:

Code:

13 14 15
16 17 18 19
20 21 22
23 24

then yeah that works better. When I saw the post I thought it was slightly more akward than that.

-LC