Thread: Manipulate a string?

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    Manipulate a string?

    I am reading data from a file into a vector. The data is in a form of lastname, firstname. I need to switch it to be firstname lastname. Any clues on how I could do this? I have the program doing everything it needs to do, but this. This is a minor part of the program, but it looks ugly in it's present form. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

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    Difficult to say without knowing how your vector is used and how you read the strings from file.
    Code:
    fs>> lastname >> firstname;
    v.push_back(firstname);
    v.push_back(lastname);
    ...perhaps?

    >Thank you!
    No no, thank you.
    The information given in this message is known to work on FreeBSD 4.8 STABLE.
    *The above statement is false if I was too lazy to test it.*
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    the data is a list in a file. the data is a GPA then lastname.firstname.
    (example)

    3.57 Jones, Steve
    2.91 Kramer, Bill


    there are 2 vectors, one for the GPA's and the second is for the string. the string ends up being lastname, firstname.
    the final output needs to be in firstname lastname

    Code:
    void main ()
    {
    vector<double> gpa;
    vector<string> names;
    float f;
    string s;
    
    
                    ifstream fin("input.txt");                     
    
    	if (!fin)
    	cerr << "error" << endl;
    
    	while (!fin.eof())                       	{
    			
                    fin >> f;
    	gpa.push_back(f);
    
    	getline (fin, s);
    	names.push_back(s);
    
    	}
    	
    	ofstream fout("output.txt");				        
    	fout << "Original Inputted Information\n\n";   
         
    	for (int i = 0; i < gpa.size(); i++)
    	fout << gpa[i] << "   " << names[i] << endl;

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    root
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    Code:
    string firstname;
    string lastname;
    
    while (fin>> f) {
      fin>> lastname >> firstname;
      gpa.push_back(f);
      names.push_back(firstname + " " + lastname);
    }
    Tada!
    The information given in this message is known to work on FreeBSD 4.8 STABLE.
    *The above statement is false if I was too lazy to test it.*
    Please take note that I am not a technical writer, nor do I care to become one.
    If someone finds a mistake, gleaming error or typo, do me a favor...bite me.
    Don't assume that I'm ever entirely serious or entirely joking.

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    Thank you. That is almost what I need. It points me in the right direction. The problem is that the output should be in the original form before the names are reversed. Thank you for your help.

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