jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) (04/20/91)
I am trying to use a BC++ 2.0 stream. It's an ifstream tmpin("FILE.IN"); char *tmp1, *tmp2; The lines of FILE.IN looks like this: Last Middle First DOB -------------- --------------- --------------- ------- Smith John Samuel 10/10/77 . . . And what I want to do is read the first line into a char*, so I can read the second line into a char* and figure out what the field lengths are. The first gives me the names, the second, the lengths. Now, I tried this: tmpin.unsetf(ios::skipws); // To turn off whitespace breaking tmpin >> tmp1; I thought this would give me: " Last Middle First DOB", but it doesn't. It gives me " Last ". So SKIPWS must still be on, yes? Why? Also, I want to lose that first space, so I thought I could do this: tmpin >> ignore (1, '\n') >> tmp2; And lose the space, slurping the rest into tmp2, but it doesn't let me do ignore() at all; says I can't use that function on this data type. Can anyone illuminate me on my problems? jas -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey A. Sullivan | Senior Systems Programmer jas@venera.isi.edu | Information Sciences Institute jas@isi.edu | University of Southern California