Thread: Issues reading text files

Hi guys

I've just started playing with reading files and am unsure how to read in files that have the foloowing format:

<string> <string> <int>
<string> <string> <int>
....

A white space seperates each entry in the file.

Heres my code to date:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])

{
	
	string str1, str2, input, temp;
	
	int int1;

	ifstream file ("test.txt");
	if (file.fail()){

		cout << "error on opening file";
	}

	if (file.is_open()){
		while (!file.eof())
		{
			file >> input;

			//how to get individual parts???
			// str1 = 1st string
			// str2 = 2nd string
			// int1 = int

			cout << "str1: " << str1
				 << ", str2: " << str2
				 << ", int1: " << int1 << endl;

		}

	}

	file.close();
	
	cin.ignore();
	cin.ignore();

	return 0;
}

Any ideas what I need to do?

BTW - Is the approach I've gone through so far the best??

Thanks in advance