Re: Problems reading strings from files

From:
benben <benhongh@yahoo.com.au>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:42:32 +1000
Message-ID:
<448b9f3a$0$19566$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>
Gaijinco wrote:

I had a file named nap.in which looks like this:

4
10:00 12:00 Lectures
12:00 13:00 Lunch, like always.
13:00 15:00 Boring lectures...
15:30 17:45 Reading
4
10:00 12:00 Lectures
12:00 13:00 Lunch, just lunch.
13:00 15:00 Lectures, lectures... oh, no!
16:45 17:45 Reading (to be or not to be?)
4


Shouldn't this be 3?

10:00 12:00 Lectures, as everyday.
12:00 13:00 Lunch, again!!!
13:00 15:00 Reading (I love reading, but should I schedule it?)
1
12:00 13:00 I love lunch! Have you ever noticed it? :)

I'm using this to read the file and extract the data:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
 ifstream in("nap.in");

 string line;
 while(getline(in,line))
 {
    int n = atoi(line.c_str());
    for(int times=1; times<=n; ++times)
    {
       getline(in,line);
       cout << line << endl;
    }
 }
 return 0;
}

[snip]

The BIG whitespace is actually part of the output.

What is happening?


When do people learn to debug?! AFAICS your problem is from your input
file. It can be easily caught from a simple debugging. So run your
debugger before you post it here.

Thanks.


Ben

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