Reading numbers from a text file problems

[Wolvenmoon]

Hey guys, I have another problem in an assignment. I'm supposed to be reading a list of numbers seperated by one blank space spanned across three lines.

I'm having trouble figuring out how to skip blank spaces and just grab the number in each pass of the loop. A lot of this assignment's loops get averages of sets of these numbers. Originally I had it in:

char fileinput;
int sum
int count
float average
...
 
while(!filein.eof())
{
finein.get(fileinput);
sum = sum + fileinput;
count = count + 1;
}
 

(That was typed up here as an example, and isn't a copy/paste of my actual code.)
Pretend filein is datfile1.txt and datfile1.txt equals

517 977 546 178 11 33 71 \n
716 333 811

(The real thing is different, and I've tried having a numinput int and a blankspace char, but it kicks back errors.)

[Laharl]

First off, input is generally delimited by whitespace, so you don't really need to account for it in this manner. Also, there are better functions to use than get(). If you're working in C, read this. If you're working in C++, read this instead.

[Wolvenmoon]

First off, input is generally delimited by whitespace, so you don't really need to account for it in this manner. Also, there are better functions to use than get(). If you're working in C, read this. If you're working in C++, read this instead.

so filein >> num when num is an integer variable would get those numbers one after the other?

[Laharl]

Yep, you've got the right of it, as long as file is an ifstream or an fstream opened in read or read-write mode.

[Wolvenmoon]

Alright, I got that much, but I have to keep the original formatting of the input file as well, including the lines. What would I use to do that so I don't get a bunch of jumbled together integers?

[Wolvenmoon]

Got that, thank you for your help! Onto finding the range of these numbers.. *Remembers bubble sort from previous class and starts googling.*