EDITED How do I split it up into char and int arrays - c++

Question

I don't know what happened to the post but it must have happened on my first edit.
I got this info to go in and work when it was in separate files. But I need it on one file.
I have looked in my text book and a bunch of other places but I can not find how to only get the text or characters out of the file.
I have got all the info into a single array but it looks like I will need to pull out each group piece by piece and put it where I want it but that looks slow, tedious and very susceptible to errors.
Johnson 85 83 77 91 76
Aniston 80 90 95 93 48
Cooper 78 81 11 90 73
Gupta 92 83 30 69 87
Blair 23 45 96 38 59
Clark 60 85 45 39 67
Kennedy 77 31 52 74 83
Bronson 93 94 89 77 97
Sunny 79 85 28 93 82
Smith 85 72 49 75 63
If this looks familiar it is the same assignment as my previous post, now I just need to figure out how to parse this info and use it again.

Answer 1

Chances are, you'll need to take your input as string value and check through it to find the beginning of the numerical characters.
only after having separated the alphabetical part of the input string from it's numerical part, you start creating your target arrays.
this might help: How can I check if a string has special characters in C++ effectively?
/e: wording

Answer 2

There are multiple ways of doing it. You could read it into a string and process it manually based on spaces. Or you could use stringstream to extract numerical values into array/vector. That however, still requires you to remove the name before you do it.
Here is a little code that reads the file content into an unordered_map which is essentially a dictionary as defined in other languages.
void read_file(const std::string& path) {
std::ifstream in(path); // file stream to read file
std::unordered_map<std::string, std::vector<double>> map;
/*
* map structure to hold data, you do not have to use this.
* I am using it only for demonstration purposes.
* map takes string (name) as KEY and vector<double> as VALUE
* so given a NAME you can get the corresponding grades VECTOR
* i.e.: map["Johnson"] --> [85, 83, 77, 91, 76]
*/
std::string line;
while (std::getline(in, line)) { // read entire line
if (line == "") continue; // ignore empty lines
int last_alpha_idx = 0; // name ends when last alphabetic is encountered
for (size_t i = 0; i < line.size(); i++)
if (std::isalpha(line[i])) last_alpha_idx = i; // get index of last alpha
std::string name = line.substr(0, last_alpha_idx + 1); // name is from index 0 to last_alpha_idx inclusive (hence +1)
std::string numbers = line.substr(last_alpha_idx + 1); // array values the rest of the line after the name
std::stringstream ss(numbers); // this is an easy way to convert whitespace delimated string to array of numbers
double value;
while (ss >> value) // each iteration stops after whitespace is encountered
map[name].push_back(value);
}
}
You could read it into an array, the code will not change dramatically. I chose string as KEY and vector<double> as VALUE to form KEY/VALUE pairs for the dictionary (map).
As you can see in the code, it looks for the last alphabetic character in each line and takes its index to extract the name from the read line. Then it takes the rest of the string (just the numbers) and puts them into a stringstream which will extract each number individually in its inner loop.
Note: the code above supports having full names (e.g. "Johnson Smith 85 83 77 91 76").