Re: how to clear ifstream failed state and move on
"cmay" <cmay@walshgroup.com> wrote in message
news:1155515575.984703.130060@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com
I am trying to loop through a file, reading some simple data.
If some bad data is read, for example "A" when a float is expected,
then I want to be able to clear the error and move on to the next
record.
Your problem is, when the bad character is encountered, it remains
unread - the stream is still positioned at it. So the next time round,
you encounter it again and get the same error.
It seems that calling clear does clear the error state, but it looks
like I am unable to move on to the next record. I have experimented
with .ignore with inconsistent results.
What exactly have you tried with ignore() ? It should work like this:
inFile.clear();
inFile.ignore(numeric_limits<int>::max(), '\n');
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