Thread: Need help with reading from .txt

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    Unhappy Need help with reading from .txt

    I just started with c++ and now I need some help, I would like a simple script to read from a .txt and out the lines if my txt looks like this

    apple
    bannana
    peach
    ...
    ...

    put it in a loop and then out the lines
    Code:
    read("help.txt");
        while( doc is not at end )
        {
        string zin;
        zin = get the next line
        cout << zin
        }
    something like that.

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    Try searching the board. This is a rather common question.

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    >> while( doc is not at end )
    This can cause problems when reading from a file, since there is no way of knowing if the doc is at the end until you have already tried to read past it.

    You want something like:
    Code:
    read("help.txt");
    string zin;
    while( (zin = get the next line) succeeds )
    {
        cout << zin
    }
    Lookup fstream and getline.

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    meh

    I searched, but i couldnt find anything not so complicated. And I looked at fstream and getline, these seem fine, but I just cant put em to gether to get the desired effect.

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    Have you? Really?
    http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showp...63&postcount=5

    http://cboard.cprogramming.com/searc...earchid=597516 - 34 results, have you read everything and still found nothing? very strange...
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