Thread: Search Through String

I'm having some trouble with reading in words from a file, and separating them into a multi-dimensional vector.

I am able to read the words in, but I need to be able to find where a space or carriage return occurs in the .txt file so I can separate each word and store them separately.

Code:

          ifstream OpenFile("example.txt");

		int pos = 0;
        string str;
       while(!OpenFile.eof())
       {
                getline(OpenFile, str);
                cout << str;

				string::size_type pos = str.find_first_of(" ");

			while (pos != string::npos) {
			cout << "Found space at: " << pos << endl;
			 pos = str.find_first_of(" .", pos + 1);
			}
				
      }
        OpenFile.close();

That finds the space, but I don't know how to delete it.

Thanks for your help.

Can you read in with operator>> instead of getline? operator>> automatically stops at and ignores whitespace. Of course, this only works for whitespace, so if you need to handle punctuation in the same way then I guess getline is the way to go.

You can always create a substring with the current word using substr, and then erase that word and the trailing whitespace before continuing your loop.

Originally Posted by Daved

You can always create a substring with the current word using substr, and then erase that word and the trailing whitespace before continuing your loop.

That's what I was initially trying to do, but I don't know how to use the substr function to do something like that.

Would I add a for loop inside of the second while loop, and have substr somehow delete the position where the space or carriage return was found?

I don't think you need another loop. I was thinking of using substr to get the good word. Then you can either use erase or substr again to get the rest of the line without that word.

You could use find_first_not_of to find the first regular character after the whitespace. That would be the first character of the next good word. Use that as the start of the rest of the line.