Re: how to read tab delim file into 2D Array

From:
yogi_bear_79 <yogi_bear_79@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:47:40 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<046a65e0-1714-40d5-a687-775feeaae38e@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 30, 11:29 am, yogi_bear_79 <yogi_bear...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Now, it's up to you to look at what everyone has said, decide how you wa=

nt

to try it, and try it, When you get stuck then ask how to fix your co=

de.

Getting Closer: This is building the vector, but it is one-
dimensional, seems to be a series of rows, versus columns. For
example the data is stored in d[0][0] - d[219][0]. Whenever I attempt
to increment col I get runtime errors. Also still need to figure out
how to use row to get to the next row in the vector, and finally I am
still losing my last column of data. Still Working on it though.
Tips needed!

int main()
{
     ifstream file;
     std::string line, value, delim = "\t";
     typedef std::vector<std::vector<string> > Data;
     Data d;
     int row = 0, col = 0;

     file.open ("test.txt",ios::in);
     assert(file.is_open());

     while (!file.eof()){
    std::getline(file,line);
    size_t startPos = 0, pos = line.find(delim);
    if(row > 1)//skip title & header row
    while (pos != std::string::npos){
         value = line.substr(startPos, pos - startPos);
         d.push_back(std::vector<string>(1));
         d.back().at(col)=value;
              startPos = pos + delim.length();
         pos = line.find(delim, startPos);
    }
    row++;
    col = 0;
    }

    file.close();

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