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I would like know how I can skip a line while reading
a set of input data (from a text file) if the first character
of the line is "#".

My original code reads:

ifstream Infile("data.dat");

for( int i=0; i<N; i++){
Infile >> x[i] >> y[i];
}

In article <. com>,
says...
> I would like know how I can skip a line while reading
> a set of input data (from a text file) if the first character
> of the line is "#".
>
> My original code reads:
>
> ifstream Infile("data.dat");
>
> for( int i=0; i<N; i++){
> Infile >> x[i] >> y[i];
> }

One obvious possibility would be something like this:

std::istream &my_getline(std::istream &is, std::string &s) {
while (std::getline(is, s) && s[0] == '#')
;
return is;
}

for (int i=0; i<N; i++) {
std::string line;
if (!my_getline(Infile, line))
break;
std::stringstream temp(line);
temp >> x[i] >> y[i];
}

That does raise one minor question: you're starting with a count (N) of
lines to read. Is that count supposed to include the commented lines or
not? The code above attempts to read N lines of actual data -- if you
want a total of N lines, whether they contain data or not, you'd have to
rewrite it a bit.

--
Later,
Jerry.

The universe is a figment of its own imagination.

Thanks. I have a further question..


Jerry Coffin wrote:

> One obvious possibility would be something like this:
>
> std::istream &my_getline(std::istream &is, std::string &s) {
> while (std::getline(is, s) && s[0] == '#')
> ;
> return is;
> }
>
> for (int i=0; i<N; i++) {
> std::string line;
> if (!my_getline(Infile, line))
> break;

Is the if-statement for checking if the Infile does exit?



> std::stringstream temp(line);
> temp >> x[i] >> y[i];
> }
>

In article < .com>,
says...

[ ... ]

> > for (int i=0; i<N; i++) {
> > std::string line;
> > if (!my_getline(Infile, line))
> > break;
>
> Is the if-statement for checking if the Infile does exit?

It's mostly to check whether we've reached the end of the file (for
example, if the file got corrupted and only contained one line).

--
Later,
Jerry.

The universe is a figment of its own imagination.