On 3/29/07, akhila_3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the line i am trying to read looks something like this:
> cfg.?.readline=("string1,string2");
>
> there are a 1000 lines in the file that begin with cfg but only 1 that
> has "readline" in it. also i dont know wat variable1 and variable2 are
> (there could be more than 2 strings. i am not supposed to know the
> count either). i have to read them in and print them out.
>
> the other thing is the config file is located in another dir.
>
> Can you please tell me how i can extract the line from the config
> file. i was thinking of using fgets... but was not sure if C++ had a
> better way of doing this?
> n also how exactly does getline work?
Real simple. Consider (untested, simplified, but should work):
ifstream ifs ("/path/to/filename");
string tmp;
while (getline (ifs, tmp))
{
cout << tmp << endl; // echo line or process it
}
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Tamas Marki
