Thread: getline comparison + audiobooks

I am trying to read a formatted file where the first two characters in each line denotes the type of line it is, it's related to music.
For instance "T:" denotes its the title.
One song can have many titles (there folk songs) which will be on consecutive lines in the same file

T:Mullingar Lee, The
T:Nine Pint Coggie, The

I want to make it so if one song has many titles they are output to the screen using apostrophes to space them.

in pseudocode

Code:

if(title this line and next)
{
output name and apostrophe
}
else
{
output name and endline
}

I dont know how to compare or check as I am using getline to read each individual line, should I use two getlines with a one line offset between them?
I thought the function peek() might work but don't think the characters are there to be read with getline. Any help would be appreciated.


Besides that I would love to get an audiobook on c++ to listen to while coding or on the bus etc.. are there any free ones or good quality pay ones that don't break the bank.

Thanks

You could use a bool flag? Initially it would be set to false and then each time you read in a line and it is a title, the flag is set to true.
when you read the next line, if it's a title, it checks if the flag is true (ie, the previous line was a title), if it is true, then you can do whatever you want. Whenever you read a line that isn't a title, you set the flag to false.

There are probably loads of ways to do this, and people far more experienced than me will probably give you a much better solution, however this is the first that popped into my head.

Excellent Idea actually.. thanks!