Thread: <fstream> arghghghhhhhhhh

So here's the problem:
When using <fstream> you can do:

Code:

#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

void main()
{
 char buffer[200];

 ifstream fin;
 fin.open("blbalba.txt");
 fin>>buffer;
}

And this load up a word in a buffer[], So how can i load up the whole line???
I need the whole line, Arhghghhhhh!!!

allright!

There is a wierd character in my text file that makes my getline split, it looks like [] here's a report:

string ( this is a line ) :

Code:

@"Ach! Hans, Run!"@;@UNH@;;@Gld@;@{2}{R}{R}{G}{G}@;@Enchantment@;@@;@Quinton Hoover@;@116@;@R@;@0000@;@At the beginning of your upkeep, you may say "Ach! Hans, run! It's the . . ." and name a creature card. If you do, search your library for the named card, put it into play, then shuffle your library. That creature has haste. Remove it from the game at end of turn.@;

loads ok

but

Code:

@1996 World Champion@;@PR@;;@Gld@;@{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}@;@Legendary Creature@;@*/*@;@Christopher Rush@;;@R@;@0011@;@Cannot be the targets of spells or effects.
World Champion has power and toughness equal to the life totals of target opponent.
{0}: Discard your hand to search your library for 1996 World Champion and reveal it to all players. Shuffle your library and put 1996 World Champion on top of it. Use this ability only at the beginning of your upkeep, and only if 1996 World Champion is in your library.@;@It takes great sacrifice to make it to the top.@

has a wierd symbol in it ( maybe you can't see it, but it's there ). And the result of getline
is all the text before symbol. Next getline contains the text after the symbol.
I hate this symbol!

If you're trying to read a file that has nonstandard characters, like an mp3, you're gonna have problems. You'll run into carriage returns and other things that will mess with your input. Fstream was meant for text files with ASCII standard characters only.

i'm loading *.txt, And this character is just incredibly wierd. I haven't seen something like this before...
I tryed to copy that character here, and cursor jumped row below just like i pressed return.
Strange! // Now i can use CTRL+V instead of VK_RETURN

In notepad This strange character is displayed. While in Vim ( text editor ) the character is spliting lines. Is there a way to ignore this character?

If you opened the file in binary, you could work with it, but that takes a different level of understanding.

So what should my delimiter be, it can't be '\n' 'cause it stops on the character.
It can't be '.' 'Cause there isn't . on the end of each line...
There isn't a way out of this.

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*clears throat*

If you opened the file in binary, you could work with it, but that takes a different level of understanding. There is no magical answer that will let what you (and I) know be able to work with nonstandard characters in files.

...of you're not happy with that answer, then you should know that most things that you'll have with nonstandard characters will have a filesize or something else in the file that corrupts it when you edit it. Try opening one of your programs in a text editor and deleting a character then run it.

Well how does win Notepad opens this file, and displays it corectly.
I'm just gonna replace that symbol with another symbol i can read, reccomend me a wierd symbol
that can be read with <fstream>

What does that have to do with my symbol?