extracting words from an array of words

Hello all, I'm having a lot of trouble with extracting individual words from an array of words. First I input a file into an array, and then I'm trying to extract each word into a seperate cstring, I can do it if the number of words is given, but if not then I'm drawing a blank. But, lets say that I know that maximum number of words is 25, what then?

this is what I have so far:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

const int SIZE = 81;
const int MAX_WORDS = 25;

int main()
{

        ifstream inStream;
        //ofstream outStream;
       
        inStream.open("darwin.txt");
        if ( inStream.fail() ) {
      cout << "Input file opening for darwin.txt failed.  Exiting...\n\n";
      exit(-1);
    }
 
       
        char theWords[MAX_WORDS][SIZE];
        int wordRow = 0;
        int count = 0;       
                int i;
        int numberOfWords=0;
        char j;
        char *pWord;
        char word[SIZE/2][SIZE];
        int c=0;
       
        while ( inStream >> theWords[wordRow])
        {
      wordRow++;
    }
    ............and here I'm drawing a blank

       
        return 0;

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should I test if the an element of theWords array is a blank space " ", but then how could I account for punctuation? I know I don't have much done this time, but any suggestions would be much appreciated,

thanks

axon

if your array of chars is null terminated i.e. a c style string then you could use strtok(). many examples on the boards. search button is up and right!

Thanks a lot, I did used search before posting but I was using different keywords...it's weird that my book doesn't even include the strtok() in its contexts...this makes things much simpler...I'll keep working on it...thanks a lot,

axon