I have a csv file with the following information on each line:
John,Doe,17
The ifstream object name is inFile and I tried:
string firstName;
string lastName;
int age;
inFile >> firstName >> "," >> lastName >> "," >> age
However, clearly, i cannot do >> "," >>
How do I correctly get those values and use them?
Thank you.
You can do it this way.
string firstName;
string lastName;
int age;
getline(inFile, firstName, ',');
getline(inFile, lastName, ',');
inFile >> age;
If you want to keep it consistent, you can use getline(inFile, ..., ',') for all data, then use std::stoi to convert age to integer. Or you can use getline(inFile, wholeline), and then use sscanf on the wholeline.
inFile >> firstName >> dummy >> lastName >> dummy >> age; - this doesn't work - >> to a std::string consumes input until the next whitespace character or end-of-stream, so "John,Doe,17" ends up in firstName.
You'll want to use a stringstream and read each line into the stream using the comma as a delimiter. See: this question and its answer
