>From elrod..
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On 29-Sep-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i have a string which has a bunch of numbers i want to read out and then
> a char buffer as well. the string is of the form:
>
> [num fields] [length field 1] [length field 2] ... [length field n -1]
> [length field n] [buffer]
>
> i can easily read the beginning numbers but the data blob is elluding
> me. for the first part i want to use the delimiting behavior of >> to
> pull out the individual numbers but for the second part i want to just
> get the remainder of the stream including whitespace. anyone out there
> who is knowledgeable about streams? here is my code so far:
>
> istringstream ist;
>
> ist.str("2 10 17 mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]");
>
> uint32 numFields;
>
> ist >> numFields;
>
> uint32* fieldLength = new uint32[numFields];
>
> for(uint32 i = 0; i < numFields; i++)
> {
> ist >> fieldLength[i];
> }
> string data;
>
> data = ist.str(); // this returns the entire stream... not what i
> want...
> ist >> data; // this returns "mark" due to the whitespace... not what i
> want...
>
>
> elrod
