File Parsing

**swanley007** · 03-29-2006

Hello;

I am having problems inputting a file and getting it the way I want it. The followin is an example of the file

8
-1 -1 -1
1 -1 -1
1 1 -1
-1 1 -1
-1 -1 1
1 -1 1
1 1 1
-1 1 1
4 0 1 2 3
4 1 5 6 2
4 5 4 7 6
4 4 0 3 7
4 3 2 6 7
4 0 4 5 1

The 8 at the top tells how many of the next set(in lines) there are. The next set, the -1-1-1 and so on are the xyz coordinates. I need to bring these in an store in a vector of structs as below. The final set of numbers are verticies that need to be stored in a vector of vectors. The storing in vectors and structs is not the problem. The problem lies in getting the correct input and converting to floats(set 2) and ints(set3) for storage.

THe vectors and structs are as follows:

Code:

struct coords{
int x;
int y;
int z;
}

vector<coords> coordinates
Not sure if how to declare a vector of vectors
vector<int> store
vector<store> vec1

Hope someone can help

i call the fstream myfile.

**Bench82** · 03-29-2006

retrieving data from a file stream is as simple as

Code:

    int i;
    myfile >> i;

Although you really should perform error checking in case the data retrieved from the file is of the wrong type. (If this happens, the stream will fail/set failbit, and you'll need code to handle that)

you can also use

Code:

    string s;
    getline(myfile, s);

This will store it as plain text, and you'll need an extra step to parse the string to ints/floats. This is the long-winded way

Code:

Not sure if how to declare a vector of vectors

a vector of vectors is declared the same way as a vector of any other type.

Code:

vector< vector<int> >

or, if that looks ugly to you, use a typedef,

Code:

typedef vector< vector<int> > vec2D;

you could add/retrieve elements of your "2D" vector like this,

Code:

#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

typedef vector< vector<int> > vec2D;

int main()
{
    vec2D myData;
    vector<int> vec;

    vec.push_back(1);
    myData.push_back(vec);
    myData.at(0).push_back(2);

    cout << myData.at(0).at(0) << " "
         << myData.at(0).at(1);
    cin.get();
}

This is a bit of an ugly example since it uses "magic" numbers to access the elements, you're better off using iterators for reading the contents, but I hope this gives you the basic idea.

**swanley007** · 03-29-2006

Thanks for the info, especially the vector of vectors, but will the myfile >> intx work fo the negative and positive values?

**swanley007** · 03-29-2006

Thanks to all for the help... here is the final working code:

Code:

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

using namespace std;
struct coord{
       int x;
       int y;
       int z;
};
struct vert{
       vector <int> verts;
};
vector <coord> cord;
vector <vert> vec1;


int main()
{
  string line;
  int num_lines;
  int i;
  int x1,y1,z1;
  coord temp;
  
  ifstream myfile ("cube.off");
  if (myfile.is_open())
  {
    myfile >> num_lines;
    cout << "HERE: " << num_lines << endl;                   
    for(i=0;i<num_lines;i++)
    {
      //getline (myfile,line);
      //cout << line << endl;
      myfile >> x1;
      myfile >> y1;
      myfile >> z1;
      temp.x=x1;
      temp.y=y1;
      temp.z=z1;
      cord.push_back(temp);
      cout << "LINE IS: "<<x1<<" "<<y1<<" "<<z1<<endl;
    }
    myfile.close();
  }
  else
  {
       cout << "Unable to open file";
  } 
  
  for(i=0;i<cord.size();i++)
  {
     cout << cord[i].x << endl;                          
                             
 }
    
system("PAUSE");    
return 0;    
}

**Bench82** · 03-29-2006

Originally Posted by swanley007

Thanks for the info, especially the vector of vectors, but will the myfile >> intx work fo the negative and positive values?

You probably already figured this out for yourself, but the answer is yes anyway.

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