How to read input with comments led by some commenting symbol
 

Hello All,

I am thinking about using streams to read input with comments led by
some commenting symbol such as '#'. I appreciate your suggestion.

Best regards,

Jayden

Re: How to read input with comments led by some commenting symbol
 

On 11/14/2011 10:01 AM, Jayden Shui wrote:
> I am thinking about using streams to read input with comments led by
> some commenting symbol such as '#'. I appreciate your suggestion.

I suggest you get on with it, then.

V
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Re: How to read input with comments led by some commenting symbol
 

On Nov 14, 10:13*am, Victor Bazarov <v.baza...@comcast.invalid> wrote:
> On 11/14/2011 10:01 AM, Jayden Shui wrote:
>
> > I am thinking about using streams to read input with comments led by
> > some commenting symbol such as '#'. I appreciate your suggestion.
>
> I suggest you get on with it, then.
>
> V
> --
> I do not respond to top-posted replies, please don't ask

I have two methods to do it, but am not satisfied. One is developing a
manipulator ignore_comments and use it like:

cin >> ignore_comments >> data1 >> ignore_comments >> data2 >> ...

The other way is using boost filtering stream shown in

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0...doc/index.html

I tried this method, but when I input by cin, I have to click ctrl+z
twice to stop the input and let the code continue to run. I don' know
why?

Thank you for your help!

Jayden

Re: How to read input with comments led by some commenting symbol
 

On 11/14/11 09:34, Jayden Shui wrote:
[snip]
> The other way is using boost filtering stream shown in
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0...doc/index.html
>
> I tried this method, but when I input by cin, I have to click ctrl+z
> twice to stop the input and let the code continue to run. I don' know
> why?

Try posting this question to the boost users list:

boost-users@lists.boost.org

with a subject starting with [iostreams].

I'd guess you'd get more and possibly better responses than on
this list.

-regards,
Larry

Re: How to read input with comments led by some commenting symbol
 

On Nov 14, 10:54*am, Larry Evans <cppljev...@suddenlink.net> wrote:
> On 11/14/11 09:34, Jayden Shui wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > The other way is using boost filtering stream shown in
>
> > * *http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0...doc/index.html
>
> > I tried this method, but when I input by cin, I have to click ctrl+z
> > twice to stop the input and let the code continue to run. I don' know
> > why?
>
> Try posting this question to the boost users list:
>
> * boost-us...@lists.boost.org
>
> with a subject starting with [iostreams].
>
> I'd guess you'd get more and possibly better responses than on
> this list.
>
> -regards,
> Larry

Thank you very much!

Best regards,

Jayden

Re: How to read input with comments led by some commenting symbol
 

On Nov 14, 10:34*am, Jayden Shui <jayden.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 10:13*am, Victor Bazarov <v.baza...@comcast.invalid> wrote:
>
> > On 11/14/2011 10:01 AM, Jayden Shui wrote:
>
> > > I am thinking about using streams to read input with comments led by
> > > some commenting symbol such as '#'. I appreciate your suggestion.
>
> > I suggest you get on with it, then.
>
> > V
> > --
> > I do not respond to top-posted replies, please don't ask
>
> I have two methods to do it, but am not satisfied. One is developing a
> manipulator ignore_comments and use it like:
>
> * * cin >> ignore_comments >> data1 >> ignore_comments >> data2 >> ....
>
> The other way is using boost filtering stream shown in
>
> * *http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0...doc/index.html
>
> I tried this method, but when I input by cin, I have to click ctrl+z
> twice to stop the input and let the code continue to run. I don' know
> why?
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Jayden

May I suggest you just write your own getline function? I don't know
your requirements but it seems more straightforward if you're doing
line based input.

There's a C++ library getline function that reads a line into a
std::string. It's very easy to use that inside your own getline
function which just skips comment lines however you define them.

HTH

Re: How to read input with comments led by some commenting symbol
 

On Mon, 2011-11-14, Jayden Shui wrote:
> On Nov 14, 10:13*am, Victor Bazarov <v.baza...@comcast.invalid> wrote:
>> On 11/14/2011 10:01 AM, Jayden Shui wrote:
>>
>> > I am thinking about using streams to read input with comments led by
>> > some commenting symbol such as '#'. I appreciate your suggestion.
>>
>> I suggest you get on with it, then.

> I have two methods to do it, but am not satisfied. One is developing a
> manipulator ignore_comments and use it like:
>
> cin >> ignore_comments >> data1 >> ignore_comments >> data2 >> ...
>
> The other way is using boost filtering stream shown in
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0...doc/index.html

I just do it like I do it in Perl: read line by line, and for each line:
- does it contain a #? Then continue parsing the text between start
of line and the #.
- otherwise, parse the text between start of line and '\n' or
end-of-line

Has been good enough so far.

Never learned to use the fancy iostreams input stuff, and all the
questions about that around here makes me think that was the right
choice!

/Jorgen

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Re: How to read input with comments led by some commenting symbol
 

On 11/14/2011 3:12 PM, Jorgen Grahn wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-14, Jayden Shui wrote:
>> On Nov 14, 10:13 am, Victor Bazarov<v.baza...@comcast.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 11/14/2011 10:01 AM, Jayden Shui wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am thinking about using streams to read input with comments led by
>>>> some commenting symbol such as '#'. I appreciate your suggestion.
>>>
>>> I suggest you get on with it, then.
>
>> I have two methods to do it, but am not satisfied. One is developing a
>> manipulator ignore_comments and use it like:
>>
>> cin>> ignore_comments>> data1>> ignore_comments>> data2>> ...
>>
>> The other way is using boost filtering stream shown in
>>
>> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0...doc/index.html
>
> I just do it like I do it in Perl: read line by line, and for each line:
> - does it contain a #? Then continue parsing the text between start
> of line and the #.
> - otherwise, parse the text between start of line and '\n' or
> end-of-line
>
> Has been good enough so far.
>
> Never learned to use the fancy iostreams input stuff, and all the
> questions about that around here makes me think that was the right
> choice!

That should work just fine as long as there are no tokens that are
allowed to contain # that isn't the beginning of a "comment", like
string literals, for instance... ;-)

V
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Re: How to read input with comments led by some commenting symbol
 

On Nov 14, 3:12*pm, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-14, Jayden Shui wrote:
> > On Nov 14, 10:13*am, Victor Bazarov <v.baza...@comcast.invalid> wrote:
> >> On 11/14/2011 10:01 AM, Jayden Shui wrote:
>
> >> > I am thinking about using streams to read input with comments led by
> >> > some commenting symbol such as '#'. I appreciate your suggestion.
>
> >> I suggest you get on with it, then.
> > I have two methods to do it, but am not satisfied. One is developing a
> > manipulator ignore_comments and use it like:
>
> > * * cin >> ignore_comments >> data1 >> ignore_comments >> data2 >> ....
>
> > The other way is using boost filtering stream shown in
>
> > * *http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0...doc/index.html
>
> I just do it like I do it in Perl: read line by line, and for each line:
> - does it contain a #? *Then continue parsing the text between start
> * of line and the #.
> - otherwise, parse the text between start of line and '\n' or
> * end-of-line
>
> Has been good enough so far.
>
> Never learned to use the fancy iostreams input stuff, and all the
> questions about that around here makes me think that was the right
> choice!
>
> /Jorgen
>
> --
> * // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ *Oo *o. * . * * .
> \X/ * * snipabacken.se> * O *o * .

I totally concur with you comment on iostreams. Especially when most
of my work is done reading line by line.

Re: How to read input with comments led by some commenting symbol
 

On Mon, 2011-11-14, AnonMail2005@gmail.com wrote:
> On Nov 14, 3:12*pm, Jorgen Grahn <grahn+n...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
....
>> Never learned to use the fancy iostreams input stuff, and all the
>> questions about that around here makes me think that was the right
>> choice!

> I totally concur with you comment on iostreams. Especially when most
> of my work is done reading line by line.

I should add that I /do/ like them for line-by-line input, and for
formatted output. It's the formatted input I don't like (and I don't
like fscanf() either).

Some reject iostreams entirely.

/Jorgen

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