Thread: Reading .txt file across (blank) lines into struct

I'm having trouble reading information from .txt file into a struct when that info is spread across several lines of the file with some blank lines in between. The .txt file looks like:

1. What is the capital of Peru? 2 //2 being the key to the right answer

1. Santiago
2. Lima
3. Montevideo
4. Havana

2. Which is the largest planet in the solar system? 3

1. Saturn
2. Neptune
3. Jupiter
4. Uranus

My code is here: #10963301 - Pastie

However the output looks like this:

Code:

Question 1:  What is the capital of Peru?
The options are:
1.  Santiago
2.  Lima
3.  Montevideo
4.  Havana
And the correct choice is option 2
Question 2:  Which is the largest planet in the solar system?
The options are:
1.  Santiago
2.  Lima
3.  Montevideo
4.  Havana
5.  Saturn
6.  Neptune
7.  Jupiter
8.  Uranus
And the correct choice is option 3

The second question is picking up all the choices from the first question and then it's own options. I've tried a couple of other approaches (commented out in the program) but each produces it own set of quirks. If somebody could help me put the finishing touches here I'd be most grateful. Thanks,

Code:

quest.m_answers.clear();
while (File >> quest)
        {
            QQQ.emplace_back(quest);
        }

You need to clear the answers every time you read a question, not just the first time.

Put the clear statement inside operator >>

Thank you very much indeed.
Here's how I'm trying to explain this back to myself, please let me know if there are any lacunae in my understanding:
Question object quest remains in scope as long as filestream object File is open and so it's container data-member, here vector<string>, also stays 'open'. So when the second question is being read from File, quest's container data member still has the answers from the first question. This is true for all quest's data-members but POD members are simply overwritten but for container data-members like vectors, since we're using push_back or emplace_back the second set of answers get attached to the end of the first set of answers and so on. Thus when struct or class objects with container-type data members are being read into, we need to clear() the containers after each reading ...