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"Anthony Moss" <> wrote in message
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> I have overloaded the std::istream operator >>, and am reading information
> from a file.
> however the files have comments in them
> Does any one know the stream operator which igrnores the rest of the line
> and progresses straight down to the beginning of the next line
> thanks
> Anthony
>

Not an operator but a method

file.ignore(INT_MAX, '\n');

Ignores characters upto and including the next newline. INT_MAX is defined
in <limits.h>

john