A C function that reads an entire line from a stream. It was originally a GNU extension that was standardized in POSIX.1-2008.
Questions tagged [getline]
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getline delimiter using stringstream
It seems that it's not separating the word within the space.
Trying to separate the words in between, and stored it in first and second.
cin >> name; //input name
stringstream file (name);
getline(file,first, ' '); //seperate the name with the…
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Reading Lines from File and Storing in Separate String Variables
I am creating a bank terminal for an assignment. It has the ability to add clients with each client containing 5 different variables for name, address, social#, employer, and income. Those variables are then written to a file once they have been…
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Assigning file data to array of structs
I'm currently attempting to assign a line of data from an input file to an array of structs.
Here is my struct:
struct student
{
int ID;
int hours;
float GPA;
};
student sStudents[MAX_STUDENTS]; // MAX_STUDENTS =…
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Escaping from loop for line in file but still get the rest of the file as string
The following code gets each line from a txt file. If the line is "References\n" the file should continue to getlines, but appended to another string removing the subsequent '\n' instances. How should I deal with the nested loops and breaks?
for…
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getline() doesn't end long input
I need to input in my program a big string until the user types a delim char and I've written this code:
int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
string str, temp;
string c;
cout << "Insert delim char:" << endl;
getline(cin,…
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Every other line of data is skipped when reading and storing data from a file
I'm new to C++ and I'm having a little trouble when it comes to reading lines of data from a text file. Let's say I have an unknown number of lines in a text file, with each line in the same format: int string double . The only thing that will be…
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How to prevent "\n" being written at the end of file
I am writing a program to read/write from a text file which contain employee information.
Each employee information is stored inside a textfile like below.
Employee information is stored to four lines.
W00051 M
Christopher Tan
1200.00 150.00 1400.20…
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Beginner Error with "getline"
this is my first time posting a question so I hope I'm getting this right. Anyways, I'm trying to create a program to ask the user for a string, count the types and numbers of letters, then output the frequency of the letters. So far I'm having an…
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Linecache adding an extra line to the line that i get
When i try to get a line using linecache in python.
loginpass = raw_input("> ")
if loginpass == linecache.getline('Password.txt', 1):
The line that it gets always returns with an extra line.
So if line one is
"Test"
It returns
"Test
"
It worked…
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Finding a match to a string with getline
I am trying to search a vector of string names for matches. Names can be more than one word so in prompting the user I am using getline(std::cin, name); however I can never find matches with the existing names in the vector. How do I remove the…
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Issue reading space from file
I am trying to read a line from a file that has spaces in it. Despite everything I've tried and all my research, nothing seems to work, here is my current attemp
void read_name(fstream& in_file, comp& cmp)
{
char buff[80];
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C++ getline() jumped over empty strings
I'm reading with my c++ program csv file:
abc;def;ghi
10;;10
by this code:
while(getline(in, str, '\n')){
stringstream ss;
while(getline(ss, str, ';')){
line.add(str);
}
}
Where in is input file, str is string…
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std::getline returning the wrong size
something wrong with getline(), taking the words in correct but still the value of size remains 26.
I tried printing each time it takes in a character and all of them do print so itis taking in strings correctly, but not storing them?
I have…
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C++ getline() restarting before reading entire file
The gist of my problem is that I am reading a file with fields separated by #'s except for the end of the line. When I look at the print statements for the fields that I am reading into a book struct (that uses a for loop to go through the entire…
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Continuously input lines using getline to end of txt document C++
I have a really long .txt file which I want to stream in using getline. I want to input this entire text document, and then run it through a procedure.
I then want to run that new string through the same procedure using a different values, and so on…
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