Using replace()

this code won't compile:

Code:

char word[256];
ifstream in("test_data.txt");
in.getline(word, 256);
replace(word.begin(),word.end(), ',' , ' ');
in.close();

what it tries to do is to replace all the commas in word with spaces...if i define word as a string it works...but then getline doesn't work...

Thanks!

Farooq

begin and end are member functions for STL container objects, a simple character array is not one of those. If you want to use a character array and the replace function you will need to do it this way:

Code:

char word[256];
ifstream in("test_data.txt");
in.getline(word, 256);
replace(word,word+256, ',' , ' ');
in.close();

>>if i define word as a string it works...but then getline doesn't work...
You just have to use the template version of getline:

Code:

std::string word;
std::ifstream in("test_data.txt");
std::getline(in, word);

thanks guys...ill work on this...