reading text file to struct help needed!

Hi,

I am having trouble where to begin reading in my text file my little program I created.
below is the text file i want to read into a struct in my program.

I just want some help on parsing the file. whats the best way to do it?

I could read each line into a string, search for a ':' and then read the file into my struct, but that seems a little tedious to me. surely there is a better way. Just some hints and tips to put me in the right direction. I am trying to use only c++ but yeah I now a struct is from C. Not ready for classes just yet.

I don't want someone to write the code for me please!(at least not yet!:))


the file.....

Code:

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Name        : John
Race        : Human
Class        : Fighter
Strength        : 18
Intelligence        : 10
Dexterity        : 14
Wisdom                : 8
Charisma        : 18
Luck                : 10

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my struct.....

Code:

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struct character
{
        string name;
        string namerace;
        string nametype;
        int str;
        int dex;
        int cha;
        int wis;
        int luk;
        int inte;
}

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Quote:

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I could read each line into a string, search for a ':' and then read the file into my struct, but that seems a little tedious to me

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Don't you think that's the way it should be...
find position of ':'
trim form 0 to pos-1 and trim from pos+1 to maxlength
remove spaces
put in to a map, why? so that parsing will be done once...

http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/cpp/config_file.html

If you can stand having constant size strings then I would use char arrays for your text. This will allow you to read the entire struct in with no parsing.
Otherwise you will have to create a readString and a writeString function to read/write STL strings from disk.