Little help with reading a file.

[aroticoz]

Hello, I'm having troubles figuring out how to make my program display only sertain parts of a file. Here's what I mean:
The file I lead is this:

14x80
%
Home
Syntax:
[LET]variable = value
Description:
The asignment operator assigns the variable its left the value of the express
ion on its right. The equal sign symbol is used both for assignment, and cond
itional equivalence operator. To avoid confusion the optional LET keyword may
 be used.
&index&
#

%
index
blah blah this is another text
#

So, what I need to do is load the the file but display only the first part of it between the % and the # symbol. I can't think of a way to do it, any ideas will be appreciated.
to explain the first line of code, it's what tells the program the size of the file.

Here is the code I use for loading and dysplaying the file:

int LoadMap(char mapFile[])
{
	ifstream file(mapFile,ios::in);
	if(!file)
		return -1;
	char * sizestr = new char[10];
	file.getline(sizestr,10,'\n');
	string strsize = sizestr;
	delete[] sizestr;
	
	MAPHEIGHT = atoi(strsize.substr(0,strsize.find("x")).c_str());
	strsize.erase(0,strsize.find("x")+1);
	MAPWIDTH = atoi(strsize.c_str());
	
	int ycounter = 0;
	while(ycounter < MAPHEIGHT)
	{
		file.getline(map[ycounter],1000,'\n');
		ycounter++;
	}
	file.close();
	return 0;
}

void DrawMap(int mapheight, int mapwidth)
{
	color(FWI|BNULL);
	for(int ycounter = 0; ycounter < mapheight; ycounter++)
	{
		gotoxy(2,ycounter+1);
		for(int xcounter = 0; xcounter < mapwidth; xcounter++)
		{
			if(map[ycounter][xcounter] == '#')
			{ycounter=mapheight;}
			else
				cout << map[ycounter][xcounter];
		}
	}
}

Thanks in advance.

--aroticoz

[Anubis]

display only the first part of it between the % and the # symbol

You can just use "getline" the version for use with the "string class". Just use the '%' and '#' as delimiters. You could also use "getline" with 'x' to get the numbers to.

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <ostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
	ifstream file(mapFile,ios::in);
	if(!file)
		return -1;

	string astring;
	getline(file,astring,'x');
	string astring2;
	getline(file,astring2);

	int number1;
	int number2;

	stringstream ss;
	ss << astring;
	ss >> number1;

	stringstream ss2;
	ss2 << astring2;
	ss2 >> number2;

	string strsize1;
	getline(file,strsize1, '%');
	file.ignore();

	string strsize2;
	getline(file,strsize2, '#');

	cout << strsize2 << endl;
	cout << "number1 = " << number1 << endl;
	cout << "number2 = " << number2 << endl;
	//file.close();
	return 0;
}

[aroticoz]

Thank you very much.