getting data from a .txt file! HELF!

I'm doing this for a c++ class I have, and I'm stuck as to where to go next. This is super easy stuff I'm assuming, i'm just stuck.

The program is: I have to read this data:

Box | 250 5750
Sideline | 100 28000
Premium | 50 35750
General | 25 18750

This is data from seats sold to a game. the first number after the seat type is the price of the ticket, the second is the number sold. I am only telling you this so my code so far will make sense to you.

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
        ifstream inFile;
        ofstream outFile;
        string seatType;
        double ticketPrice;
        int ticketsSold;
        double total;
        double grandTotal=0.0;

        inFile.open("c:\\tickets.txt");
        outFile.open("c:\\Atchley_Alex.txt");

        outFile<<fixed << showpoint;
        outFile<< setprecision(2);

        //gathering data from tickets.txt
        getline(inFile, seatType, '|');
        inFile >> ticketPrice >> ticketsSold;
       
       
        //outputting data to Atchley_Alex.txt
        outFile << setw(10) << seatType << setw(5) << ticketPrice
                    << setw(5)  << ticketsSold << endl;

        //calculating total ticket sales
        grandTotal = (ticketsSold+grandTotal);




        system("pause");


        inFile.close();
        outFile.close();




        return 0;


}

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Now this might have not been TOTALLY neccissary to copy what I have so far. But! I do not know how to get to the second line of ticket-sales data. It reads the first one, the BOX string and the numbers after it just fine. HOWEVER, I don't know how to get it to go on a head and read the second one. I know i can set up a looping structure to make it repeat what it just did, but I don't know how to make it move on. Thanks for any help.

sorry if this has been covered in the FAQ, but I'm not sure what this would fall under.

The extraction operator ( >> ) automatically goes to the beginning of the next line for you.

What you have to understand is, when your textfile looks like this:

Box | 250 5750
Sideline | 100 28000
Premium | 50 35750
General | 25 18750

As far as the computer is concerned, it actually looks like this:

Box | 250 5750\nSideline | 100 28000\nPremium | 50 35750\nGeneral | 25 18750\n

That '\n' between each of your lines is a newline character. It's what gets appended to a string when you press the enter key. Think of cin, you enter your data and press enter. It reads up to the enter (newline character) and stops. Then the next input it dumps the leading newline and starts at the next character in the buffer.

oooh i think i know what to do now! thanks for your help!

okay...my initial theory (copy and pasting the code as much times as neccissary to read all the data) failed.

Code:

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        //gathering data from tickets.txt
        getline(inFile, seatType, '|');
        inFile >> ticketPrice >> ticketsSold;
       
       
        //outputting data to Atchley_Alex.txt
        outFile << setw(10) << seatType << setw(5) << ticketPrice
                    << setw(5)  << ticketsSold << endl;

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Put all that in a loop until inFile fails.