Writing an array and calling the array question

[mintominto82]

Hello, I am a newbie to C++. I read C++ Primer from cover to cover at least 3 times, but that did not help. I am trying to write a program that loads txt file and write the data into array. the data looks as follows:

01/02/2004,1108.48
01/05/2004,1122.22

I managed to write program that loads the data, but I am not so sure about writing them into array. I want to 1) open the file to input (which I wrote the codes for), 2) read the file into a string (which I have absoltely no idea how to) 3) then split the string into an array of Month, Day, Year, and Price.

Another question is: If I build a function that needs to call on the array, how do I do so? Is it Somfunction (&array[1], &array[2], etc)?

Any help would be appreciate it, but if you could provide as much detail as possible, it would be great. thanks:)

[sicarie]

I would recommend using getline() in a loop to get each line, and then you can store the line into the array. If you check out that link, it has some good code examples, but post again if you get confused.

::Edit:: Cplusplus.com also has a very good tutorial on accessing arrays.

[mintominto82]

I would recommend using getline() in a loop to get each line, and then you can store the line into the array. If you check out that link, it has some good code examples, but post again if you get confused.

::Edit:: Cplusplus.com also has a very good tutorial on accessing arrays.

thanks for the info:) But what do you mean by using getline() in loop? how does it work? If I use "while" statement, can I use *.eof()?

[sicarie]

thanks for the info:) But what do you mean by using getline() in loop? how does it work? If I use "while" statement, can I use *.eof()?

Yep, you can. (And the link is the getline() documentation with examples to help you figure out how getline() works).