Re: Ignoring the rest of the line in an istream
Spencer <Spencer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
It appears that the proper way to ignore the rest of a line in an
istream is to use a function like this:
template <class T, class TRAITS>
std::basic_istream<T, TRAITS> &ignore_rest_of_line
(std::basic_istream<T, TRAITS> &s)
{
return s.ignore(std::numeric_limits<typename TRAITS::off_type>::max,
s.widen ('\n'));
}
The only thing I'm unsure about is the type to specialize
numeric_limits with in Visual C++. Visual Studio Help says that
ignore interprets numeric_limits<int>::max as an arbitrarily large
size, which may be correct in practice, but what if you're using a
nonstandard istream with a different traits type?
The C++ standard is also inconsistent, showing ignore() as taking
streamsize in one place and int in another. See DR172:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-defects.html#172
The resolution is to use streamsize consistently, and
numeric_limits<streamsize>::max for the special value.
--
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