Thread: Reading only sections of a text file

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    Exclamation Reading only sections of a text file

    Does anyone know how to do this?

    Here is my text file:
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    This is a note // This is the begining of section 1
    
    This comes too
    
    
    This is the second note // This is the begining of section 2
    and it follows
    
    And continues
    I want the program to ask for a number. Once you put in a number it will display the text of a sertain section. It will be able to tell the differences between sections becouse after every section there is two breaks in a row that have no text before them. And depending on what number you put in it displays that section.

    Thanks, August

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    Anyone?

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    Read dummy lines until your find the line your interested in. std::getline().
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    That would work other than the fact of that if you add lines to you'r notes it would mess everything up!

    Do you have any other ideas?

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    Once you put in a number it will display the text of a sertain section
    A section is given a specific number. If you add lines so these numbers are messed up then there's no way to make it regardless of method.
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    I see.

    Well, could you give me an example of you'r first idea? I have never heard of
    Code:
    std::getline();
    before.
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