Re: Read data into c++

From:
Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:19:24 +0200
Message-ID:
<ktmk1d$mo$1@speranza.aioe.org>
axcytz@gmail.com wrote:

I have a data that looks like this:

1,2,3
1,3,4
2,4
1
2,4,5,6

I have these data in an excel file but can also copy into a txt file. I have
declared a vector in c++ and want to read these data into my c++ code.

How can I import these data from txt or excel file?


For those kind of things, use a standard input stream and tell it that "," has
to be considered as a "white space". The key point is std::istream::imbue.

Below is an example:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>
#include <iterator>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <cctype>
#include <locale>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>

using namespace std;

vector<int> get_vector(istream& is) {
    istream_iterator<int> ii(is), eof;
    return vector<int>(ii, eof);
}

void print_vector(const vector<int>& v) {
    ostream_iterator<int> oo(cout, "\n");
    copy(begin(v), end(v), oo);
}

struct Facet : ctype<char> {
    Facet() : ctype<char>(get_table()) {}

    static ctype_base::mask const* get_table() {
        static vector<ctype_base::mask>
                rc(classic_table(), classic_table() + table_size);

        for (size_t i = 0; i < table_size; i++)
            if (i == ',')
                rc[i] = ctype_base::space;

        return &rc[0];
    }
};

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    istream* in = &cin;

    if (argc == 2)
        in = new ifstream(argv[1]);
 
    istringstream istr;
    istr.imbue(locale(locale(), new Facet())); // the facet will be destroyed
    for (string line; getline(*in, line); istr.clear()) {
        istr.str(line);
        vector<int> v = get_vector(istr);
        print_vector(v);
    }

    if (in != &cin)
        delete in;

    return 0;
}

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