How to get individual informations from a file?

[GAOZH]

Let's say there is a file called "info.txt", it looks like:

File1-0(71%) File2-0(63%) 177
File1-1(59%) File2-1(30%) 100

How to write C++ code to get the int number only? Example to get the int 71, int 63, and int 177 from the first line.

Thanks. : )

[D_C]

There needs to be some consistency, otherwise it's not possible. For your case, there will always be three numbers. The first two numbers are between the characters '(' and '%'. I would search for each of those, then take the substring that's in between both of them. Then parse those strings to integers. For the last one, use a reverse find function to find the last space in the string, then everything after that will be the last integer. Parse that substring as an integer too.

[GAOZH]

There needs to be some consistency, otherwise it's not possible. For your case, there will always be three numbers. The first two numbers are between the characters '(' and '%'. I would search for each of those, then take the substring that's in between both of them. Then parse those strings to integers. For the last one, use a reverse find function to find the last space in the string, then everything after that will be the last integer. Parse that substring as an integer too.

Can explain in C++ code? I don't really understand how to convert what you said into coding.

Thanks.

[D_C]

For example, the following code parses lines of the form:

LastName        12343210    FirstName    9

Since there may be more than one tab in between LastName and ID, everything is pulled from the end after removing LastName from the string. There will always be exactly one tab in between those fields. That's why rfind(), reverse find, is used instead of find().

  string str;
  ifstream file("toolsongs.txt");
 
  if (file.is_open())
  {
 
    Song *temp;
    string lname;
    int ID;
    string fname;
    int age;
 
    int pos;
 
    do
    {
      getline(file,str);
 
      pos = str.find('\t',0);
      lname = str.substr(0,pos);
      str = str.substr(pos+1,str.length());
 
      pos = str.rfind('\t',str.length());
      age = atoi(str.substr(pos+1,str.length()).c_str());
      str = str.substr(0,pos);
 
      pos = str.rfind('\t',str.length());
      fname = str.substr(pos+1,str.length());
      str = str.substr(0,pos);
 
      pos = str.rfind('\t',str.length());
      ID = atoi(str.substr(pos+1,str.length()).c_str());
 
      temp = new Person(fname,ID,lname,age);
}

[Nhd]

Hi can i add on a question...

What if the question requires us to read in from cin all lines of the report and write to cout the required statictic instead of reading from a file...

How do we modify the above codes so that instead of reading from a file, it reads in from cin...

[dav3]

For example, the following code parses lines of the form:

LastName        12343210    FirstName    9

Since there may be more than one tab in between LastName and ID, everything is pulled from the end after removing LastName from the string. There will always be exactly one tab in between those fields. That's why rfind(), reverse find, is used instead of find().

  string str;
  ifstream file("toolsongs.txt");
 
  if (file.is_open())
  {
 
    Song *temp;
    string lname;
    int ID;
    string fname;
    int age;
 
    int pos;
 
    do
    {
      getline(file,str);
 
      pos = str.find('\t',0);
      lname = str.substr(0,pos);
      str = str.substr(pos+1,str.length());
 
      pos = str.rfind('\t',str.length());
      age = atoi(str.substr(pos+1,str.length()).c_str());
      str = str.substr(0,pos);
 
      pos = str.rfind('\t',str.length());
      fname = str.substr(pos+1,str.length());
      str = str.substr(0,pos);
 
      pos = str.rfind('\t',str.length());
      ID = atoi(str.substr(pos+1,str.length()).c_str());
 
      temp = new Person(fname,ID,lname,age);
}

A current project I am working on is very similar to this. I have a question though, you have fname, lname declared as strings. Is it possible to declare them as char[some value]? And if so how does the extraction of the information change?

[horace1]

Let's say there is a file called "info.txt", it looks like:

File1-0(71%) File2-0(63%) 177
File1-1(59%) File2-1(30%) 100

How to write C++ code to get the int number only? Example to get the int 71, int 63, and int 177 from the first line.

Thanks. : )

you could use a string tokenizer, e.g.
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/c...ng/strtok.html
http://www.partow.net/programming/st...zer/index.html
http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/stringtok.asp

to extract tokens from your input string and then convert the appropriate strings into numeric data