Remove()

Hello!

Would there be an easier way to remove several characters than this?

Code:

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  while ( file >> line ) {
          line.erase( remove(line.begin(),line.end(),'.') , line.end() );
          line.erase( remove(line.begin(),line.end(),',') , line.end() );
          line.erase( remove(line.begin(),line.end(),'!') , line.end() );
          vWords.push_back(line);
  }

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The for loop not working

Code:

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  while (file >> szWord) {
        for (int i = 0; szWord[i]; i++){
          if ( szWord[i] == '.' || szWord[i] == ',' || szWord[i] == '!'){
                szWord [i] = ' ';
          } 
        } 
        vWords.push_back(szWord);
    }

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The whole code

Code:

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int main ()
{
  vector<string> vWords1;
  vector<string> vWords2;
 
  read_file("1.txt", vWords1);
  read_file("2.txt", vWords2);
 
  sort (vWords1.begin(), vWords1.end());
  sort (vWords2.begin(), vWords2.end());
 
  vector<string> v;
 
  set_intersection (vWords1.begin(), vWords1.end(),
                    vWords2.begin(), vWords2.end(), back_inserter(v));
 
  cout << "Intersection has " << v.size() << " elements.\n";
  for (size_t i = 0; i != v.size(); ++i)
    cout << "The "<< i+1 <<"." << " element is: " << v[i] << "\n";
 
  system("pause");
}
  void read_file( const char* name, vector<string>& vWords)
  {
    ifstream file(name);
    string line;
    vWords.clear();
    while ( file >> line ) {
          line.erase( remove(line.begin(),line.end(),'.') , line.end() );
          line.erase( remove(line.begin(),line.end(),',') , line.end() );
          line.erase( remove(line.begin(),line.end(),'!') , line.end() );
          line.erase( remove(line.begin(),line.end(),'?') , line.end() );
        vWords.push_back(line);
    }
  }

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There is also remove_if. You'd write a function or a function object that - given a character as input - returns whether the character should be removed.

The non-working for loop might work if you actually removed the spaces from the string.

Thanks to you, Anon!