I'm having some trouble understanding how to use cin.getline and cin.get. I believe I understand the problem, just trying to figure out how to use them in conjunction possibly to solve a problem.
I'm reading from a text file that's read in through cin through command line.
I created a vector of vectors called spaceStation and I want to load it with characters.For example, here's a small portion of the file
M
4
2
//Possible comments
....
#...
E#..
#...
For this, i read in the first three characters properly just using cin>> to load into a variable. Now I need to create a loop to read these multiple characters in on the same line. 1) I'm supposed to ignore all comments 2) I want to run the while loop until a new line is reached that contains no more information
I created a string s so getline(cin,s) should load the entire lines. My question is should i create a cstring s so i can access the individual characters to load or is there a way to use cin.get() to extract the individual characters of the line received by s.
string s;
vector<string> v; // this is the best choice you can iterate like this to get char by char:
for (int i=0;i<v.size();i++)
for (int j=0;j<v[i].size();j++)
v[i][j];
// or like this to get strings
for (int i=0;i<v.size();i++)
v[i];
getline(cin, s); // this is to read the \n (new line) after int in the 3rd line
while (getline(cin,s))// till end of file
{
if (s.find_first_not_of(".#E") == -1)
{
v.push_back(s);
}
}
for (int i=0;i<v.size();i++)
cout<<v[i]<<endl;
You also can take advantage of the string class functions.
Related
I'm doing a hangman project for school, and one of the requirements is it needs to read the pictures of the hanging man from a text file. I have set up a text file with the '-' char which means the end of one picture and start of the next one.
I have this for loop set up to read the file until the delimiting character and store it in an array, but when testing I am getting incomplete pictures, cut off in certain places.
This is the code:
string s;
ifstream scenarijos("scenariji.txt");
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++ ) {
getline(scenarijos, s, '-');
scenariji[i] = s;
}
For the record, scenariji is an array with type of string
And here is an example of the text file:
example
From your example input, it looks like '-' can be part of the input image (look at the "arms" of the hanged man). Unless you use some other, unique character to delimit the images, you won't be able to separate them.
If you know the dimensions of the images, you could read them without searching for the delimiter by reading a certain amount of bytes from the input file. Alternatively, you could define some more complex rules for image termination, e.g. when the '-' character is the only character in the line. For example:
ifstream scenarijos("scenariji.txt");
string scenariji[10];
for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
string& scenarij = scenariji[i];
while (scenarijos.good()) {
string s;
getline(scenarijos, s); // read line
if (!scenarijos.good() || s == "-")
break;
scenarij += s;
scenarij.push_back('\n'); // the trailing newline was removed by getline
}
}
I need to make a program in C++ that must read and write text files line by line with an specific format, but the problem is that in my PC I work in Windows, and in College they have Linux and I am having problems because of line endings are different in these OS.
I am new to C++ and don't know could I make my program able read the files no matter if they were written in Linux or Windows. Can anybody give me some hints? thanks!
The input is like this:
James White 34 45.5 10 black
Miguel Chavez 29 48.7 9 red
David McGuire 31 45.8 10 blue
Each line being a record of a struct of 6 variables.
Using the std::getline overload without the last (i.e. delimiter) parameter should take care of the end-of-line conversions automatically:
std::ifstream in("TheFile.txt");
std::string line;
while (std::getline(in, line)) {
// Do something with 'line'.
}
Here's a simple way to strip string of an extra "\r":
std::ifstream in("TheFile.txt");
std::string line;
std::getline(input, line));
if (line[line.size() - 1] == '\r')
line.resize(line.size() - 1);
If you can already read the files, just check for all of the newline characters like "\n" and "\r". I'm pretty sure that linux uses "\r\n" as the newline character.
You can read this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline
and here is a list of all the ascii codes including the newline characters:
http://www.asciitable.com/
Edit: Linux uses "\n", Windows uses "\r\n", Mac uses "\r". Thanks to Seth Carnegie
Since the result will be CR LF, I would add something like the following to consume the extras if they exist. So once your have read you record call this before trying to read the next.
std::cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');
If you know the number of values you are going to read for each record you could simply use the ">>" method. For example:
fstream f("input.txt" std::ios::in);
string tempStr;
double tempVal;
for (number of records) {
// read the first name
f >> tempStr;
// read the last name
f >> tempStr;
// read the number
f >> tempVal;
// and so on.
}
Shouldn't that suffice ?
Hi I will give you the answer in stages. Please go trough in order to understand the code.
Stage 1: Design our program:
Our program based on the requirements should...:
...include a definition of a data type that would hold the data. i.e. our
structure of 6 variables.
...provide user interaction i.e. the user should be able to
provide the program, the file name and its location.
...be able to
open the chosen file.
...be able to read the file data and
write/save them into our structure.
...be able to close the file
after the data is read.
...be able to print out of the saved data.
Usually you should split your code into functions representing the above.
Stage 2: Create an array of the chosen structure to hold the data
...
#define MAX 10
...
strPersonData sTextData[MAX];
...
Stage 3: Enable user to give in both the file location and its name:
.......
string sFileName;
cout << "Enter a file name: ";
getline(cin,sFileName);
ifstream inFile(sFileName.c_str(),ios::in);
.....
->Note 1 for stage 3. The accepted format provided then by the user should be:
c:\\SomeFolder\\someTextFile.txt
We use two \ backslashes instead of one \, because we wish it to be treated as literal backslash.
->Note 2 for stage 3. We use ifstream i.e. input file stream because we want to read data from file. This
is expecting the file name as c-type string instead of a c++ string. For this reason we use:
..sFileName.c_str()..
Stage 4: Read all data of the chosen file:
...
while (!inFile.eof()) { //we loop while there is still data in the file to read
...
}
...
So finally the code is as follows:
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstring>
#define MAX 10
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string sFileName;
struct strPersonData {
char c1stName[25];
char c2ndName[30];
int iAge;
double dSomeData1; //i had no idea what the next 2 numbers represent in your code :D
int iSomeDate2;
char cColor[20]; //i dont remember the lenghts of the different colors.. :D
};
strPersonData sTextData[MAX];
cout << "Enter a file name: ";
getline(cin,sFileName);
ifstream inFile(sFileName.c_str(),ios::in);
int i=0;
while (!inFile.eof()) { //loop while there is still data in the file
inFile >>sTextData[i].c1stName>>sTextData[i].c2ndName>>sTextData[i].iAge
>>sTextData[i].dSomeData1>>sTextData[i].iSomeDate2>>sTextData[i].cColor;
++i;
}
inFile.close();
cout << "Reading the file finished. See it yourself: \n"<< endl;
for (int j=0;j<i;j++) {
cout<<sTextData[j].c1stName<<"\t"<<sTextData[j].c2ndName
<<"\t"<<sTextData[j].iAge<<"\t"<<sTextData[j].dSomeData1
<<"\t"<<sTextData[j].iSomeDate2<<"\t"<<sTextData[j].cColor<<endl;
}
return 0;
}
I am going to give you some exercises now :D :D
1) In the last loop:
for (int j=0;j<i;j++) {
cout<<sTextData[j].c1stName<<"\t"<<sTextData[j].c2ndName
<<"\t"<<sTextData[j].iAge<<"\t"<<sTextData[j].dSomeData1
<<"\t"<<sTextData[j].iSomeDate2<<"\t"<<sTextData[j].cColor<<endl;}
Why do I use variable i instead of lets say MAX???
2) Could u change the program based on stage 1 on sth like:
int main(){
function1()
function2()
...
functionX()
...return 0;
}
I hope i helped...
What I've been trying to do, is read a line from stdin and split it, by using whitespace as seperators.
Let's say I have this as input:
2
1 2
3 4
The first line gives me the amount of lines I'd like to read, they're all lines with integers seperated by an unknown amount of whitespace (i.e. could be 1 space, but it could also be 10 spaces).
The thing I've been trying to do is reading those lines into dynamically sized arrays of integers.
This was extremely easy in Python:
foo = raw_input()
array = foo.split()
or even shorter:
foo = raw_input().split()
However, because of the circumstances, I have to learn the beauty of C++.
So I tried to create something akin to the above Python code:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int lines;
int *array;
int main() {
cin >> lines;
for (int line = 0; line < lines; line++) {
// Something.
}
}
I don't seem to know a way to split the line of input. I know that std::cin reads until it reaches a whitespace. However, I can't seem to think of something to count the amount of numbers on the line...
A little nudge into the right direction would be appreciated, thanks.
so given all you wanted is a nudge, here are a couple of hints..
std::getline() - allows you to read from a stream into a std::string.
You can then construct a std::istringstream using this string which you've just read in. Then use this stream to read your ints
for example:
std::string line;
if(std::getline(std::cin, line))
{
std::istringstream str(line);
int lc;
if (str >> lc) // now you have the line count..
{
// now use the same technique above
}
}
oh and for your "dynamically sized array", you need to look at std::vector<>
In C++ you can access characters in a string with [], just as if that string were an array. I suggest you read a line from cin into a string, iterate over the string with a for loop and check each character to see whether it is whitespace. Whenever you find a non-whitespace character, store it in your array.
I am in a situation where i had a loop and everytime it reads a string but I dont know how to read blank input i.e if user enter nothing and hit enter, it remains there.
I want to read that as string and move to next input
below is the code
int times = 4;
while(times--)
{
string str;
cin>>str;
---then some other code to play with the string---
}
You would need to read the entire line using getline(). Then you would need to tokenize the strings read.
Here is a reference on using getline and tokenizing using stringstream.
char blankline[100];
int times = 4;
while(times--)
{
//read a blank line
cin.getline(blankline,100);
---then some other code to play with the string---
}
I've been working on a class assignment for C++ and we're required to acquire input from a text file and assign those values to an array....one is a string, the second an int, and the third a double.
We've only been introduced to arrays and I don't know anything yet about pointers or linked lists, or any of the higher end stuff, so I feel like I'm somewhat limited in my options. I've worked all day trying to figure out a way to acquire input from the text file and assign it to the appropriate array. I've tried to use getline to read the input file and set a delimiter to separate each piece of data but I get an error when I try to use it more than once. From what I've read, this has to do with how I'm overloading the function but I'm at a loss at resolving it. Every explanation I've read about it goes beyond my current level of familiarity. Right now, I'm focused on this fragment of code:
for (int i = 0; i < EMP_NUM; i++) // Get input from text file for names.
getline(inFile, nameAr[i], '*');
for (int i = 0; i < EMP_NUM; i++) // Input for hours.
getline(inFile, hoursAr[i], '*');
for (int i=0; i < EMP_NUM; i++) // Input for hourly rate.
getline(inFile, hrateAr[i], '*');
I'm trying to use getline three times and write the data to three separate arrays, then make a series of calculations with them later and output them to another text file. The first instance of getline doesn't produce any compiler errors but the latter two do. I'm not quite sure of another solution to get the data into my arrays, so I'm at a loss. Any help would be great!
If I understand correctly you merely have three values in a file: a string, an int and a double. I assume they are delimited by whitespace.
If that is so then you don't need std::getline(). Rather, use the extraction operator:
std::ifstream file("input.txt");
std::string s;
if( ! (file >> s) ) { // a single word extracted from the file
// failure
}
int n;
// ...
1) Instead of three different iteration, use only one
2) Pass string object in getline instead of pointers
string buf;
for (int i = 0; i < EMP_NUM; i++) // Get input from text file for names.
{
getline(inFile, buf, '*');
nameAr[i] = buf;
getline(inFile, buf, '*'); //assuming delimiter is again *
hoursAr[i] = atoi(buf.c_str() ); //C way to doing it...however in c++ u have to use stringstreams....
getline(inFile, buf);
hrateAr[i] = atof(buf.c_str() );;
}
What do the compiler errors say? Are you sure that the error is caused by getline? Maybe it's not because the getline calls but because of multiple declarations of i.