White space problems in file input

Hi,

I am currently using the

fin.getline(buffer,30, ':' );

to read in part of a file upto a colon, where fin is the input file .

However I want to ignore white spaces so that if the input was

h ello:

it would read it in as hello.

I am a bit stuck and was hopin that someone could help with this problem . Thank you in Advance

Craig Smith

Code:

---

int i=0;
while (!buffer.eof())
{
  buffer.get(character);
  if (character != ' ')
  {
      buffer.put(char_array[i]);
      ++i;
  }
} // end while

char_array[i] = '\0';

cout << char_array;

---

or step through your array using getline to load your array and place characters into a second array if not a space...

I was hoping that there was a simpler way of doing that because I am splitting up a big file into 6 sections eg:

while (! fin.eof() )
{

fin.getline(buffer,30, ':' );
fin.getline(firstTeam,30, '(' );
fin.getline(firstScore,5, ')' );
fin.getline(secondTeam,30, '(' );
fin.getline(secondScore,5, ')' );
fin.getline(buffer,30, '\n' );


and I want each one to ignore white spaces .

Can anyone help ???

Thank you
Craig

Nope, reading file one char at a time, or parsing line one char at a time is about the only way I know of, unless the data is space limited in which case you can use >> to eliminate all whitespace. From what you describe a parsing function to eliminate whitespace from a line read in by getline and delimited by the various chars as posted in your example sounds the most reasonable to me.