Thread: I need some help reading in data with fstream

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    I need some help reading in data with fstream

    Ok suppose I file a file called bob.txt somewhere, and my program can open it and access it and theres no errors and all that good stuff. Now the contents of that file look something like this:
    sjf73#kdn&752d
    abc432xx&7
    That (hopefully) won't make sense to anyone, but that's ok. I need to read in both lines, and store them in seperate variables, but I have no idea how to do that. Can anyone help me?
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    Code:
    #include <fstream>
    #include <string>
    using namespace std;
    
    int main()
    {
        ifstream input("bob.txt");
        string str1, str2;
        getline(input,str1);
        getline(input,str2);
        input.close();
        return 0;
    }
    After this, str1 will hold sjf73#kdn&752d and str2 will hold abc432xx&7.
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