add a newline to an array of unknown size

[Jane Chandler]

I'm using getline in a while loop so that I can get all the lines one at a time; I am going to piece through each one and look at each character. However I don't know the line size and I don't know the number of lines so I have to depend on newline characters and EOF markers.

However getline doesn't get the newline character, so I have an array[1000] and I don't know where the text in the array ends. How can I add the newline to the end of the text in the array? or how do I tell when theline array has run out of text without the newline character?

while(inf.getline(theline))
//code

while(theline[i]!= '\n'
//testing each character


thanks,
Jane

[weaknessforcats]

What you do is perform your getline as usual. Then after getline completescall gcount. That will tell you the number of characters fetched by getline. If the number fetched is equal to your buffer size, there's more data. So you put the getline in a loop and fetch until gcount is less than your buffer size.

From this you can figure out the number of buffer characters to process and you won't need a delimiter.

int main()
{
  const int bufferSize = 10;
  char buffer[bufferSize];
  unsigned int fetched;
  cin.getline(buffer,bufferSize, '\n');
  fetched = cin.gcount();
  while (fetched == bufferSize)
  {
     // 1. process the characters in buffer
     // 2. do another getline and gcount
 
  }
  //3. process the remaining characters (fetched) in buffer
 
}