white spaces ...

I'm doing a program where I send a string to a file, and I want to read it back, but when I do that, the white spaces only come up as nothings .... all the words are cascaded together , for example

write to the file: "This is a test!"
I get from it: "Thisisatest!"

:( anyone know how to overcome this??

I obviously tried to use an if statement which tested for white spaces. Also, the file itself has the spaces in it, so why doesn't the reading function include them?

use getline() to read a complete line including ws.
Kurt

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Originally Posted by ZuK

use getline() to read a complete line including ws.
Kurt

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took me a while to realise what ws is ... cheers!!

hmmm, how does the getline() function work?? like what parameters are inthe brackets??

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Originally Posted by twomers

hmmm, how does the getline() function work?? like what parameters are inthe brackets??

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Guess what you need is a reference. This one was helpful for me
http://www.cppreference.com/
Kurt

hang on, does that work for file IO?

Shure. Works wit every input stream.