Loading text from file into struct

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I was hoping someone could give me a hand or point me in the right direction

I have a text file which consists of records (comma delimited)
1)First Name
2)Last Name
3)Age
4)Children's name (if any)

example text file:

Joe, White, 32, Karen, Bill
John, Doe, 45
Bill, Jones, 29, Steve

I have no problem opening the text file and reading the data into a vector of strings.

But now I want to create a struct called person

struct person
{
string first;
string last;
int age;
vector <string> children;
};

and create a vector of structs which will be filled with the information from the file.

I was trying to use find and substring functions but with no luck. This is my first programming experience and really only have a grasp of the fundamentals (haven't implemented classes yet)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[xds4lx]

Ok your on the right track using find and substr methods of the string class. I would say that you should do something kinda like this :

vector<string> file;
....
....
person a_person;
vector<person> 

while(int i < file.size())
{    int iCommaPos1 = file[i].find(","); 
     // or alternitively you could manually search by using a loop 
     a_person.first = file[i].substr(0,iCommaPos);
     
     int iCommaPos2 = file[i].find(",",iCommaPos1+1); // tells it to
     // searching from right after the last comma
     a_person.last = file[i].substr(iCommaPos1+1,(iCommaPos2-iCommaPos1)); // this is because the length of this substr is the 
              // difference between the two positions

    int iCommaPos3 = file[i].find(",",iCommaPos2+1);
    a_person.age = file[i].substr(iCommaPos2+1,(iCommaPos3-iCommaPos2));

    if(iCommaPos3 < file[i].length())
    {  int iCommaPosC = file[i].find(",",iCommaPos3+1);
       if(iCommaPosC > file[i].length() || iCommaPosC < 0)
           children.push_back(file[i].substr(iCommaPos3+1,(file[i].length() - iCommaPos3)));
       else
       {  chilldren.push_back(file[i].substr(iCommaPos3+1,(iCommaPosC - iCommaPos3)));
          ........
          // repeat the test again to see if this is the last comma
          // if searching for a nother fails, if so then your finished
          // if not then you do another push_back like the one i used
          // in the else, this code might not be perfect you might
          // have to adjust the substr's a little its been a while 
          // since ive done this

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Thank you, your reply was more than I hoped for.

I have a lot to think about.

Appreciate it!