Thread: file lines?

again, im working on a parser, is there way to determine what line of code your on.
I was thinking of writing something that goes through the whole file, and checks for '\n's that would work right?

>is there way to determine what line of code your on
std::cout<< __LINE__;

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ok I solved that problem now, in a file, how can I go directly to a line?

Here is what I came up with for the number of lines

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	if(argc>1)
		abort();
	char a;
	int count=0,lines=0;
	ifstream in;
	ofstream out;
	in.open("c:\\luke\\new.txt");
	out.open("c:\\luke\\new2.txt");
	while(in.get(a))
	{	if(a=='\n')
			lines++;
	}
	cout<<lines<<endl;
	in.close();
	out.close();
	return 0;
}

the out file is used later

>how can I go directly to a line?
If you want to be gutsy you can format the file so that the offsets are properly sequenced and then you can seek to the line you want, something like this:

file.seekg ( line_num * LINE_BYTES );

Or you could keep it simple and just read your way to the line.

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>You can only use seek() to get to a line if you've previously produced an index.
This is true for text files, but binary files are not restricted in this manner (I'm sorry for not being more clear on what I meant). According to the C++ standard, fstream::seekg calls filebuf::seekoff which in turn calls the equivalent to fseek. fseek is defined as follows for binary and text streams:

Code:

For a binary stream, the new position, measured in characters from the beginning of the
file, is obtained by adding offset to the position specified by whence. The specified
position is the beginning of the file if whence is SEEK_SET, the current value of the file
position indicator if SEEK_CUR, or end-of-file if SEEK_END. A binary stream need not
meaningfully support fseek calls with a whence value of SEEK_END.

For a text stream, either offset shall be zero, or offset shall be a value returned by
an earlier successful call to the ftell function on a stream associated with the same file
and whence shall be SEEK_SET.

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