Thread: Beginner Text File Input Question

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    Question Beginner Text File Input Question

    I am trying to read a text file and store each different word seperately using an array and whitespace as a delimiter. Example: Input from file is "I wish I knew how to do this" and I want to store "I" as word[0], "wish" as word[1], "I" as word[2], "knew" as word[3], "how" as word[4] etc.

    Here is what I have so far:
    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <fstream>
    #include <string>
    
    
    using namespace std;
    
    void main()
    {
    	string word[7];
    	int index = 0;
    	ifstream myfile("sentance.txt");
    	if (myfile.is_open())
    	{
    		while(! myfile.eof())
    		{
    			cin.get(myfile, word[index], ' ');
    			cout << word[index] << endl;
    			index++;
    		}
    		myfile.close();
    	}
    
    	system("pause");
    }
    when I compile I get:
    .\main.cpp(17) : error C2664: 'std::basic_istream<_Elem,_Traits> &std::basic_istream<_Elem,_Traits>::get(_Elem *,std::streamsize,_Elem)' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'std::ifstream' to 'char *'
    with
    [
    _Elem=char,
    _Traits=std::char_traits<char>
    ]
    No user-defined-conversion operator available that can perform this conversion, or the operator cannot be called


    Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time.

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    >void main()
    int main(). There are no excuses not to declare main correctly.

    >while(! myfile.eof())
    This is a bad way to control your loop.

    >cin.get(myfile, word[index], ' ');
    This is where your error is coming from. What you probably wanted is:
    Code:
    getline ( myfile, word[index], ' ' );
    >myfile.close();
    If myfile is about to go out of scope anyway, there's no reason to close the stream. The destructor will handle it for you.
    My best code is written with the delete key.

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    Thanks Prelude! It works great.

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