array of structures

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I have a problem where I have an structure, composed of a first and last name and an integer:

struct person
{
   string first, last;
   int number;
};

But I also have to read a text file with the data in the format:

77 lastname, firstname

I would like to know how to separate these elements to store them in an array....I know that I can use the space and maybe the comma to separate them. But I dont know how to do it....can I just use a for loop to go trough the whole text file?? I need some ideas please. thanks

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I have a problem where I have an structure, composed of a first and last name and an integer:

struct person
{
string first, last;
int number;
};

But I also have to read a text file with the data in the format:

77 lastname, firstname

I would like to know how to separate these elements to store them in an array....I know that I can use the space and maybe the comma to separate them. But I dont know how to do it....can I just use a for loop to go trough the whole text file?? I need some ideas please. thanks

working in C you could use scanf()
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/scanf.html

to read a diecimal %d (for number) a string %s (for lastname) and a string %s (for firstname). You would have to remove the , from lastname after the read