Adding stuff to strings from files..

This is probably very stupid, but I'm a beginning programmer and I'd like your help.
I have a text-file with lines like this:

bla bla bla !end!

Now I want my program to ad all the words from a line to a variable, until it reaches "!end!". So if my program would read from the above line the value of the variable would be "bla bla bla". I tried it with this (only a small piece):

Code:

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ifstream my_file("rode.txt");       
my_file>>part_of_total;
while (part_of_total!="!end!")
{
strcat(totalname," ");
strcat(totalname,part_of_total);
my_file>>part_of_total;
}

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I know, my coding in general sucks ;) But do you guys have tips or something for me to achieve this?
Doesn't have to be an anhanced methode of my coding, new coding would rock ;)
Thanx in advance!

look up strcmp() in your help files or favourite text book. You cannot compare C style strings with != operator.
strcmp() returns 0 if the strings are equal.

You can't simply do:
while(x!="!end!")

You must either use a strtok function or parse the string letter by letter.

Like:

for(i = 0; i<strlen(string); i++)
{
if(string[i] == '!')
break;

else
temp[j] = string[i];

j++;
}

Thanx fot the info both! As you can see, I'm very new :D

use strcmp to compare and then use strcat to combine the strings.