Reading in strings from a file..

[Anti_Visual]

Ok, I don't knwo how to set a delimiter, so that it stops reading a string. I have read in name, address etc, from a file, but am not sure how to get it to stop after the first name. Can you guys tell me how to do that? here is the function.

void addressBookType::readFile() //reads the data from a file using object Book of extPersonType
{
ifstream inFile;
ofstream outFile;
string first, last, adr, cit, st, member;
int size, month, day, year, phone;
double z;

inFile.open("c:/test.txt");
for(size = 0; size <= 5; size++)
{

inFile>>first>>last>>adr>>cit>>st>>z;
inFile>>month>>day>>year;
inFile>>member>>phone;
Book[size].setPersonType(first, last, month, day, year, adr, cit, st, z, member, phone);
}
inFile.close();
}

[nextus]

inFile >> firstName;

it stops after reading the first name
i read this somewhere i think..it inputs a set of character until a whitespace occurs like tab, newline, or space

pretend it has a file named blah.txt that has this
"someone likes
me too"

inFile >> string;
that will store "someone" into string, if you do it again
inFile >> string2
that will store "likes" into string2

also i read somewhere about the tellg(), tellp(), seekg(), seekp() functions..that tells current pos of the pointer to a certain character...changes it..gets it..or moves it..

[Anti_Visual]

so basically put a colon after each? I'm not sure if that will work but ill try.

the file is set up like this... so it reads them... in this order
J
ohn Smith
2504 Maple Tree
Dallas, TX
2 27 82
Family
5555555555

[nextus]

ouch..when it reads in name.."John" is one string, "Smith" is another...and the address is 3 strings...you have to contatcenate them..and make code that does that

[nextus]

yes i found a way...stupid me...hehe..ok the fstream class has a function called getline()

let me demonstrate..pretend i have a file name "test.txt" with the following stuff in it

cpp ninja rocks!
cpp ninja is cool!

with this code it will get the first line which is "cpp ninja rocks!" and stores it into name and outputs it

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

int main()
{
	char* name = new char[50];

	ifstream a_file("test.txt", ios::nocreate);
	a_file.getline(name, 50, '\n');

	cout << name;

	return 0;
}

hope that helps