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I have a program that takes in one integer and two strings from a text file "./myprog < text.txt" but I want it to be able to do this using command line arguments without the "<", like "./myprog text.txt" where the text file has 3 input values.
3 <- integer
AAAAAA <- string1
AAAAAA <- string2

If the reading of the parameters must be done solely from the file having it's name, the idiomatic way is, I would say, to use getline().
std::ifstream ifs("text.txt");
if (!ifs)
std::cerr << "couldn't open text.txt for reading\n";
std::string line;
std::getline(ifs, line);
int integer = std::stoi(line);
std::getline(ifs, line);
std::string string1 = line;
std::getline(ifs, line);
std::string string2 = line;
Because there are little lines in your file, we can allow ourselves some repetition. But as it becomes larger, you might need to read them into a vector:
std::vector<std::string> arguments;
std::string line;
while (getline(ifs, line))
arguments.push_back(line);
There some optimizations possible, as reusing the line buffer in the first example and using std::move(), but they are omitted for clarity.

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I would like to parse a sentence beginning with a number:
2 random sentece.
5 another one.
8 this is really long sentence.
Into int number holding the beginning number and the rest in std::string sentence. So in the first line, the parsing output will be number == 2 and sentence == "random sentence". The input is read from stdin, but the classical std::cin >> number >> sentence does'n work, since the parsing of string would end once it reaches a space. But I want to make the string beginning after the initial number to the end of line \n. So, how to do it in C++?
You can make use of std::getline and std::istringstream as shown below. In particular in the given program, std::getline is used to read line by line and std::istringstream is used to read first the integer and then the remaining sentence.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
int main()
{
std::string sentence;
int inputInt = 0;
//read line by line
while(std::cin >> inputInt && std::getline(std::cin, sentence))
{
std::cout<< inputInt <<"-----"<<sentence<<std::endl;
//do the check here
}
}
Demo

How can I print the integer taken as input without spaces? [closed]

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I want to print out the number entered by the user as a whole and want to ignore the spaces.
Like this:
int aValue;
cin >> aValue;
Here, suppose the user enters 49 506, I want to print it as 49506.
First you need to get a string from a user with spaces, note you need to use std::getline() for that, as operator>> would not accept spaces:
std::string str;
std::getline( cin, str );
then you use std::remove_if() together with std::isspace() to remove spaces from your string:
auto it = std::remove_if( str.begin(), str.end(), []( unsigned char c ) { return std::isspace(c); } );
str.erase( it, str.end() );
and then you convert your string to an int using std::stoi():
auto aValue = std::stoi( str );
you should also add error checking to your code handling error conditions as described in documentation.

Accessing data in a text file [closed]

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How could I access a text file and go through word by word. I understand how to open the file but just not how to pull out each word one by one. I think it has something to do with arrays?
Simply:
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
std::fstream file("table1.txt");
std::string word;
while (file >> word)
{
// do whatever you want, e.g. print:
std::cout << word << std::endl;
}
file.close();
return 0;
}
word variable will contain every single word from a text file (words should be separated by space in your file).

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My .txt file is like this:
question1 answer1
question2 answer2
question3 answer3
How can I place question1 and answer1 into two separate variables? I can use getLine(), but it will return the question and answer.
If each question is terminated with a question mark then you can write
std::string line;
while ( std::getline( FileStream, line ) )
{
std::istringstream is( line );
std::string question;
std::string answer;
std::getline( is, question, '?' );
question += '?';
std::getline( is, answer );
// some processing of question and answer
}
If there is used some other separator then you need to substitute the question mark for this separator and maybe to remove line
question += '?';

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I need to parse the following file so it takes the item as a string then skip the # sign and then take the price as a float.
text file:
hammer#9.95
saw#20.15
shovel#35.40
how would I go about doing this?
In case when you have std::string in presented format you could use something like this:
std::string test {"test#5.23"};
std::cout << std::stof(std::string{test.begin() + test.rfind('#') + 1, test.end()});
Note that std::stof is C++11 function
Read the file line by line into a string. Find # and parse second part as float.
std::ifstream file("input.txt");
for (std::string line; std::getline(file, line); )
{
auto sharp = line.find('#'); // std::size_t sharp = ...
if (sharp != std::string::npos)
{
std::string name(line, 0, sharp);
line.erase(0, sharp+1);
float price = std::stof(line);
std::cout << name << " " << price << "\n";
}
}
Note: I didn't some error checking, do them yourself as an exercise. and also you should know about std::string, std::ifstream, std::getline and std::stof.