Reading numbers from a text file

Dear friends,

there is a text file ( I copied a few lines of it below), I want to read every number in one line and want to insert to a vector. number of columns and lines can change.
How can I do that with using ifstream or any other method?
I will really appreciate any help.
thanks.

Code:

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    8    8  0.3886  0.2993  0.3997  0.3656  0.3048  1.0000  0.2231  0.1664  0.1887  0.1690  0.2214  -0.3670  10.2611    5.37  4
  16    8  0.3410  0.5109  0.7572  0.9174  0.9638  1.0000  0.9823  0.9277  0.7746  0.1978 -1.0000  -0.1390  0.2703    5.07  5
  24    8  0.9683  0.9873  0.9772  0.9798  0.9940  1.0000  0.9933  0.9828  0.9762  0.9731  0.9438  -0.0076  0.0006    5.07  2
  32    8  0.9610  0.9847  0.9661  0.9820  0.9974  1.0000  0.9954  0.9843  0.9777  0.9848  0.9688  -0.0064  0.0009    5.13  0
  40    8  0.9692  0.9759  0.9577  0.9828  0.9935  1.0000  0.9975  0.9829  0.9662  0.9889  0.9751  -0.0059  0.0017    5.33  3
  48    8  0.9537  0.9587  0.9442  0.9810  0.9962  1.0000  0.9940  0.9756  0.9628  0.9852  0.9769  -0.0078  0.0022    5.88  7
  56    8  0.9626  0.9727  0.9399  0.9700  0.9950  1.0000  0.9955  0.9824  0.9585  0.9762  0.9694  -0.0074  0.0032    6.39  7

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Do you know how to do something similar with cin? Using an ifstream is almost the exact same as cin.

To handle a variable number of lines, just read until the read fails (which will usually be because it reached the end of the file). To handle a variable number of columns, it depends on what the columns mean. Is there any indication of how many columns there will be for a given line? If you don't know, then I would read an entire line into a string with getline. Then put that line into a stringstream. Then you can read from a stringstream just like you read from cin or the ifstream with operator>>.

I dont know cin exactly,
for example how can we assign diffrent numbers (entered from console) to the different array elements, and how can we know that how many number entered ?

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Originally Posted by wolfindark

I dont know cin exactly,
for example how can we assign diffrent numbers (entered from console) to the different array elements

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#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
        int i;
        int array[20];
        for(i=0;i<20;i++)
        {
                cout << "Enter a number: ";
                cin >> array[i];
        }
       
        for(i=0;i<20;i++)
        {
                cout << "array[" << i << "] = " << array[i] << endl;
        }
}

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That's a rather simple way of using cin to read into an array.

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Originally Posted by wolfindark

and how can we know that how many number entered ?

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You don't really need to know since you said you'll be putting it inside a vector. Once you're done reading numbers (ie. ran out of numbers to read), then just find out how big the vector is.

MacGavyer,
if user enter numbers less less than 20 ?

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if user enter numbers less less than 20 ?

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With a vector that is not a problem. I suspect that you may end up using a vector of vectors, with the inner vector holding the numbers read from a line.

The loop terminates and so does the program.

The code I provided was just an example of how to read from stdin using cin.

Don't use an array and don't hardcode the number of times to read.

Have one float or double and one vector. Have a loop, where inside the loop, you read one value, and then put it in your vector. Keep going until it can't read anymore, where you either hit EOF or some other way of telling you that you hit the end of the file.

I suggest you read up on the C++ Vector and file handling.

Ok, we can understand the end-of-file, I can check it.
but in one line how can I check it? How can I check the end-of-line ? How the for loop will stop reading that line ? and without stopping the run it has to pass to the following line.
as beene says, if program stops , it is not good. I can read only one line....

>> How can I check the end-of-line ?
As I said earlier, just use getline to read a line into a string (getline can find the end of the line). Then put that line into a stringstream and read each value from that stringstream.

>> Ok, we can understand the end-of-file, I can check it.
You should not check for end-of-file. While it is possible to do that correctly, it is also commonly done wrong. It is better to use the return value of the read. So if you use getline to read in a line, you would put that into the while control:

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while (std::getline(my_file, line))

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I am sorry for my questions , they may be so silly :(

Ok, I read the line with get line, and I assigned that line to istringstream.

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    ifstream ccinp;
    string line;
    double number;
    vector<double> cc;

    while(getline(ccinp,line)){
      cc.clear();
      istringstream terr(line);
      for(int i=0;i<20;i++){
        terr>>number;
        cc.push_back(number);
      }
   
    int M= cc.size;
    cout<< M;

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in this code, my vector size becomes 20; but there is not 20 columns. How can I know define that? I have to reach the vector elements by using like cc[M-3], cc[M-1]...

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my vector size becomes 20; but there is not 20 columns.

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Then why do you tell the loop to add 20 columns to the vector? Try this:

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while( terr>>number){
  cc.push_back(number);
}

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Thanks Noir, thank you all. now is working well.
regards.