Skip integers while reading text from file into array - c++

Question

I am trying to create a program where I could read string data from a file and store it into an array, but I want to skip any integers or non-letters and not read them into the array. Any ideas on how to do that?
This is my code:
#include <iostream>
#include <stream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <algorithm>
#include <cctype>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
void loadData();
int main()
{
loadData();
return 0;
}
void loadData()
{
const int SIZE = 100;
string fileName;
std::string wordArray[SIZE];
cout << "Please enter the name of the text file you want to process followed by '.txt': " << endl;
cin >> fileName;
ifstream dataFile;
dataFile.open(fileName, ios::in);
if (dataFile.fail())
{
cerr << fileName << " could not be opened." << endl; //error message if file opening fails
exit(-1);
}
while (!dataFile.eof())
{
for (int i = 0; i < SIZE; i++)
{
dataFile >> wordArray[i];
for (std::string& s : wordArray) //this for loop transforms all the words in the text file into lowercase
std::transform(s.begin(), s.end(), s.begin(),
[](unsigned char c) { return std::tolower(c); });
cout << wordArray[i] << endl;
}
}
}

Answer 1

Use copy_if:
for (std::string& s : wordArray)
std::copy_if(s.begin(), s.end(), s.begin(),
[](char& c) { c = std::tolower(c); return std::isalpha(c); });
Note that this may not be the most efficient code.

Answer 2

This is a scenario where regexes can come in handy.
They do require forward iterators though, so you need to read in the whole file at once before extracting words.
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <fstream>
#include <regex>
std::string read_whole_file(const std::string& file_name) {
std::ifstream file(file_name);
return {std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(file),
std::istreambuf_iterator<char>()};
}
int main()
{
// ...
auto file_data = read_whole_file(filename);
std::regex word_regex("(\\w+)");
auto words_begin =
std::sregex_iterator(file_data.begin(), file_data.end(), word_regex);
auto words_end = std::sregex_iterator();
for (auto i = words_begin; i != words_end; ++i) {
std::cout << "found word" << i->str() << '\n';
}
}