How to input?

[Midhun K Menon]

i have a file which contains many words as a list.. like this:

Midhun
wonderful
excellent
handsome
interesting

how can i initialise each of these words into a string? I'd like to use
a vector of strings to do few operations on these words.

[benben]

> how can i initialise each of these words into a string? I'd like to use

a vector of strings to do few operations on these words.

std::ifstream
std::string
std::vector
std::getline

regards,
ben

[Midhun K Menon]

here's what i tried.. it is giving me error.. I'm a novice programmer..
any help with the getline?

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <vector>
#include <String>
using namespace std;
void main(){
string rhyme_line;
vector <string> rhymefact;
ifstream database("base.rfy");
cout<<"Database is loading...\n";
while (database){
database.getline(rhyme_line,'\n');
if (rhyme_line=="STOPSTOP")
break;
rhymefact.push_back(rhyme_line);
}
system("cls");
cout<<"Database loaded\n";
/* i've to write more codes here once the above part is done correctly
*/
}

the file name is base.rfy and the delimiter of words is '\n'....

[Jonathan Mcdougall]

Midhun K Menon wrote:

here's what i tried.. it is giving me error.. I'm a novice programmer..
any help with the getline?

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <vector>
#include <String>
Make this

#include <string>

with a lowercase 's'.
using namespace std;
Not recommended. At least, put it in function scope.
void main(){
main() returns an int, always.

int main()
{
using namespace std;
string rhyme_line;
vector <string> rhymefact;
ifstream database("base.rfy");
You should check whether the file was correctly opened:

if (!database)
// error..
cout<<"Database is loading...\n";
while (database){
database.getline(rhyme_line,'\n');
std::istream::getline() works on c-style strings, not on std::string.
You should use std::getline():

getline(database, rhyme_line);

and in this case, the delimiter is redundant.
if (rhyme_line=="STOPSTOP")
break;
rhymefact.push_back(rhyme_line);
}
system("cls");
Non portable. On my system, "cls" is the command to reboot the
computer, not to clear the screen. Hopefully I didn't run your program.
cout<<"Database loaded\n";
/* i've to write more codes here once the above part is done correctly
*/
}

the file name is base.rfy and the delimiter of words is '\n'....

Jonathan