I have a problem: I'm trying to read from a text file that has a lot of tabs, carriage returns, and extra spaces. For the most part, I want to maintain the relative ordering of all the material that I view, but it seems like the program skips over a lot of these symbols. Is there any way to read them verbatim? Please let me know. Thanks.
Have you tried peek() or get() ? Like:
I think both are supposed to work. They get the next character from a stream. Difference between them is that get() removes the symbol it reads from the stream, while peek() does not. I don't know which one of them is best for your program.Code:char Char1=File.peek(); char Char2=File.get();
So what you can try to do, is to get a character from the file and then see if it is '\t', '\n' or '\0' or something else you want to pay special attention to.
The OS requirements were Windows Vista Ultimate or better, so we used Linux.
What symbols?but it seems like the program skips over a lot of these symbols
The ">>" operator is defined to skip whitespace.
After you open the file, call the unsetf member function on the file stream object with ios::skipws (skip white space) as an argument to turn off the automatic skipping of whitespace (tabs, spaces, etc...).
Code:ifstream input("file.txt"); input.unsetf(ios::skipws);
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