how do you read a whole line of text from a txt file

can someone please help me with this problem. i need to read the first line of text from a txt file then output it into another txt file, then do the next line of text and so fourth. i also have to number the lines like so "1: asdadasda /n 2: sasdasdad..." and if a line is over 50 chars long i need to put it into multiple lines but the multiple lines dont need to be numbered

output is too look like this

1: Thas if skjhf ieak
2: asdkihjfnoe oi dio
3: Thea ijs ufaio
aksdi askjd oias knj
4: askdjado ij and so fourth.

please help i am so stuck and have been for like 3 hours

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson10.html

This should help :D

ty very much

I would use getline to read each line into a string, and if the string is longer than 50 characters you can break it up into pieces.