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Hi. Is there any function like getline which loads specified line from
a text file? Something like getline(myfile, line, 10); where 10 means
10th line in the file.

[Victor Bazarov]

ra*******@gmail.com wrote:

Hi. Is there any function like getline which loads specified line from
a text file? Something like getline(myfile, line, 10); where 10 means
10th line in the file.

No. It's too easy to write using 'getline' and 'ignore' to bother
putting it in the library, methinks.

V
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[raven.mp4]

On Aug 6, 4:43 pm, "Victor Bazarov" <[e-mail]:

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Hi. Is there any function like getline which loads specified line from
a text file? Something like getline(myfile, line, 10); where 10 means
10th line in the file.

No. It's too easy to write using 'getline' and 'ignore' to bother
putting it in the library, methinks.

V
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So how to code it?

[Victor Bazarov]

ra*******@gmail.com wrote:

On Aug 6, 4:43 pm, "Victor Bazarov" <[e-mail]:

>[e-mail] wrote:

>>Hi. Is there any function like getline which loads specified line
from a text file? Something like getline(myfile, line, 10); where
10 means 10th line in the file.

No. It's too easy to write using 'getline' and 'ignore' to bother
putting it in the library, methinks.

V
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So how to code it?

Something like

std::istream& skip_lines(std::istream& is, std::size_t n)
{
while (is && n--)
is.ignore(
std::numeric_limits<std::istream::streamsize>::max (),
'\n');
return is;
}

...
std::ifstream myfile; // and open it
if (skip_lines(myfile, 10))
getline(myfile, line);

V
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[Jerry Coffin]

In article <11**********************@k79g2000hse.googlegroups .com>,
ra*******@gmail.com says...

Hi. Is there any function like getline which loads specified line from
a text file? Something like getline(myfile, line, 10); where 10 means
10th line in the file.

No -- to do something like that, you'd need an index of the text file
telling where each line begins. You can do that, but it's not built in.

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