How do separate a string from a text file - c++

Question

I have a text file that has information format like this:
id last,first string
for example:
0 Snow,John nothing
1 Norris,Chuck everything
How do i get last name and first name stored separately?
To get information from file, I did:
#include <fstream>
int id;
string str;
string last;
string first;
int main()
{
ifstream myfile(ex.txt);
myfile >> id;
while (myfile)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++) // this is the amount of times i'll get information from 1 line
{
id = id; // its actually some_structure.id = id, omit
getline(myfile, last, ','); // i think i need to use another function as getline get the whole line
cout << id;
cout << last; // print out the whole line!
}
}
}

Answer 1

ifstream myfile;
string line;
while (getline(myfile, line))
{
istringstream ss(line);
int id;
ss >> id;
string fullname;
ss >> fullname;
string firstname, lastname;
{
istringstream ss2(fullname);
getline(ss2, lastname, ',');
getline(ss2, firstname);
}
}

Answer 2

if (std::ifstream input(filename))
{
int id;
string lastname, firstname, other_string;
while (input >> id && getline(input, lastname, ',') &&
input >> firstname >> other_string)
... do whatever you like...
if (!input.eof())
std::cerr << "error while parsing input\n";
}
else
std::cerr << "error while opening " << filename << '\n';
The code above has more error checking than the other answers I've seen, but admittedly - because it doesn't read text a line at a time then parse out the fields, it would happily accept e.g.:
10 Chuck,
Norris whatever

Answer 3

Would recomend something like this:
string name;
myfile >> id >> name >> str;
first = name.substr(0, name.find(","));
last = name.substr(name.find(",") + 1);
Note that your EOF checking is incorrect.

Answer 4

// The complete code that will do the job
// Please remove uncomment all code
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main () {
string line;
ifstream myfile ("ex.txt");
if (myfile.is_open())
{
while ( getline (myfile,line) )
{
cout << line << '\n';
string last = line.substr(line.find(" ") + 1, line.find(",") - 2);
string first = line.substr(line.find(",") + 1, line.find(",") + line.find(" ") - 1);
}
myfile.close();
}
else {
cout << "Unable to open file";
}
return 0;
}