reading values from a line of text

I've got a line of txt
EHRAUFE10235869496XXX 0938593863005003002049964006

and I have to read in only certain pieces of it.
this is what I've got so far.
int main()
{
char engine[5];
char major[4];
char minor[4];

// open file

infile.ignore(6,'\n'); // ignores the first 6 spaces or finds \n
infile.getline(engine,5); // asigns the next 5 to engine

/* so far it works fine, now I'm trying to get to the other side of the space to pick-up the major and minor cycles.*/
infile.ignore(14, '\n');
infile.getline(major,4);
// this one will not pick-up anything ?
any input would be great , maybe substr(pos, len) but I can't hget it to work at all.

As far as I know getline will read from the current line, then set focus to the next line.

Your best bet would be to read the entire string in and then parse it. The easiest way I can see is using the CString class.

Then again, I might be totally wrong. If so, feel free to
infile.ignore me.

If the comments in your code are correct, then your code should look like this:

Code:

---

int main()
{
char engine[6];
char major[5];
char minor[5];

// open file

infile.ignore(6,'\n'); // ignores the first 6 spaces or finds \n
infile.getline(engine,6); // assigns the next 5 to engine

/* so far it works fine, now I'm trying to get to the other side of
the space to pick-up the major and minor cycles.*/
infile.ignore(14, '\n');
infile.getline(major,5);

---

Some comments. First to store strings, character arrays should be one bigger than the size of the string (room for the string terminator). So:
char engine[6]; //Holds five characters plus terminator
char major[5]; //Holds four characters plus terminator
char minor[5]; //Holds four characters plus terminator

Each getline should match with the size declared.
infile.getline(engine,6); // assigns the next 5 to engine
infile.getline(major,5);