Thread: question on reading from a file

Can't you do something like...

// Psuedo-Code..

Code:

While( not done )
{
  for( i = 0; i < numForStackA; ++i )
  {
    read line
    put in stackA
  }

  for( ....
  {
    read line
    put in stackB
  }
}

Code:

ifstream read("filename");
char ch;
while(read.get(ch))
{    
    if(ch == '\n')
        break;
    cout << ch;
}

Of course, such low level solutions should be avoided except where they actually improve the readability and reliability of the program. However, since the more abstract methods are already debugged and tested, they should be tried first.

Code:

ifstream read("filename");
char ch[100];
read.getline(ch);
cout << ch;

Speaking of low level, C-strings are a pain to work with. Pretty much the only people who use them in C++ are die-hard C programmers that are completely comfortable with the issues, and beginners that don't know any better or are denied the better solutions by their teachers. This is a better way to get a line:

Code:

ifstream read ( "filename" );
string line;
if ( getline ( read, line ) ) {
  // Use line
}

>those were just the 2 I could think of
You have another to add to your list now.

strings are very good. look up cppReference
and get the function listings. Also, you can use the + operator to concatenate, and the = operator to assign. no more strcat() or strcopy() again for me..... string looks nicer than char [] as well.