Thread: stringstreams help i know you guys will know

I have a program some of you may remember my previous post. It uses a stringstream to convert an int to a string.
The problem is i cant find how to empty the string after it is used once

Code:

converter << filenumber;  // tacks the number onto the stream
num = converter.str();  // turn stream into a string

I want the stringstream to not keep the number from the previous while loop run is there like a empty stringstream command.

oh and if anyone can tell me how to not skip spaces with ifstream that would help too

>is there like a empty stringstream command.
If I remember correctly, this solution was posted a few days ago.

Code:

converter.str("");

thanks it works i dont no why i didnt think of that any solution to the ifstream needs to not skip spaces problem

>oh and if anyone can tell me how to not skip spaces with ifstream that would help too
One idea is to use getline(), which will read a whole line, or if you supply the third parameter to getline(), until it sees the supplied delimiter.

Code:

string stuff;
getline(in, stuff);

Code:

string stuff;
//Read until a comma is encountered
getline(in, stuff, ',');

1) The stringstream str() function can be used to get or set the string in the stringstream:

Code:

ostringstream out;
out<<10;
cout<<out.str()<<endl;

out.str("");
cout<<"--->"<<out.str()<<"<----"<<endl;

2) The ">>" operator in a line like this:

int num;
inFile>>num;

is programmed to stop reading when it encounters whitespace, and then to skip leading whitespace for the next read. So, if you want to read in spaces, you can't use ">>". Since you want to read in spaces, which are characters, you need to read the data into a string:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{

	ifstream inFile("C:\\TestData\\data.txt");
	if(!inFile)
	{
		cout<<"Failed to open file."<<endl;
		return 1;
	}
	
        string wholeLine = "";
	while( getline(inFile, wholeLine) ) 
	{
		cout<<wholeLine<<endl;
	}

    return 0;
}

Make sure your read statement is used as the while conditional--that will make sure things end correctly when you get to the end of the file or if there is an error while trying to read the file. getline() returns an object that will evaluate to false if there is an error or if the end of file has been reached(which is also considered an error).

getline(in, stuff, ',');
what are in and stuff representing
i want to move it into a string called cvk
would that be
getline(inputfile, cvk, ',');
or
getline(cvk,inputfile, ',');

edit:never mind i see it would be
getline(inputfile, cvk, ',');

thanks for all the help

>edit:never mind i see it would be
>getline(inputfile, cvk, ',');

Correct. The first parameter is the input stream, the second parameter is the string to read into, and the third parameter is the optional delimiter. And when you use char arrays instead of strings, it would be:

Code:

inputfile.getline(array, sizeof(array), ',');

But strings are definitely a better choice.