C++ :: Using Getline To Parse From A Text File?
Nov 23, 2014
I'm trying to make a program where it reads a text file which contains "blocks" of questions like:
Type: multiple_choice
Question
Num_options: number of options
a) option1
b) option2
c) option3
d) option4
Letter of answer
and
Type: short_answer
Question
Answer text
what I'm trying to do is use parse those blocks and have it get handled by the classes, MultipleChoice and ShortAnswer.
I'm planning on using getline as a virtual function and have an if statement like
"if (string == "multiple choice)
** then get it handled by the MultipleChoice class "
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May 16, 2014
Suppose i have a text file with ":" as delimiter, how to i find the average value of each column? For e.g. First column will be (3+2+5)/3 and second column will be (61+87)/2 for the third column.
Sample text file
================
3:290:61:100:
2:50:
5:346:87:
I have tried using getline in while loop, but it seemed more complicated because i think it requires much more than that.
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Jul 31, 2014
I am trying to parse a text file that contains information and i cant seem to get started. For example, the text file looks like this:
idx=929392, pl= 12, name= someperson
age=19
state=ma
status=n/a
idx=929393, pl= 12, name= someperson2
age=20
state=ma
status=n/a
idx=929394, pl= 12, name= someperson3
age=21
state=ma
status=n/a
I want to parse the name and age into another text file like this format:
someperson 19
someperson 20
someperson 21
possibly include other attributes next to the age like idx?
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Nov 14, 2014
I have this project for school where I basically need to write a program that will take any text file and convert it into html code.
string line;
int lineCount = 0;
while (!inFile.eof()) {
getline(inFile, line);
cout << line << endl;
lineCount++;
}
cout << lineCount - 1 << " lines of text read in this file." << endl;
I have this block of code to print each line of the text file into the terminal window and count the number of lines printed. But I don't know how to make it change a single character or set of characters to something else. For example, if a line of text begins with the number "1", I want to be able to change it to "<h1>".
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Jun 4, 2013
I have written a C++ program I have multiple of CSV file used as input, which I open one at a time and close it after extracting data to a output file which is the only file.
I run getline(inFile,line);
outFile << line << endl;
I run this code, and only part of it is goes to the output file I got, also have spacing randomly to specific file and inconsistent
But when I slower the code, like system("Pause") in the loop, I can get extract what I want perfectly....
Is my program running to fast, why getline would be skipping part of what things I want?
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Feb 20, 2015
I have a text file which contains many sentences. I am trying to extract only the numerical values from the string that conatins characters,numbers and white spaces from the file. I want to seperate the characters and numbers into different parts.
for example: the file contains sentances as given below.
I have to go to school for 10min.
You will come here in 15min.
He stayed here for 20min.
from the above sentances, I want to seperate " I have to go to school for " and "10" and put them into two different variables and also 10 should be in integer format.
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Mar 12, 2015
I am working on a program where I am reading in a text file to be parsed to load data objects into their appropriate classes. I have a class to load in this file and to parse its contents. I am at the point where I would like to include the ability to have both C and C++ style comments in this text file. My current class has a constructor that takes in const std::string for its file name. Upon construction I have a while loop that calls a member function getNextLine() as long as this is true this loader class object then calls parseGui(). All of this works correctly so far. Within the function getNextLine() looks like this:
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// getNextLine()
// Returns True If It Got A Line Of Text (Could Be Blank If It Is All Commented Out Or
// If It Truly Was A Blank Line). False Is Returned When There Is No More Data In The File
bool GuiLoader::getNextLine() {
if ( !_file.readLine( _strLine ) ) {
return false;
[Code] ....
As you can see this getNextLine() method reads in a single line of text and saves it into its member variable which is a std::string. It increments the line number, then a utility function trims out leading and ending white spaces. The next part is where this class calls a member function to remove comments. It is in here where I need to parse the string to look for comments either "//" C++ style line comments or "/* ... */" C style block comments that can span multiple lines. I have tried many different ways to go about doing this, and I am stuck on the C style comments. A note to consider is this: the way this code is designed is reading in a line of text from the file into a string variable and in doing so it is not logical for me to read in the complete file and do a pre-parse scan or analyzer.
This is what I have so far, however there are still cases that this code will fail on
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// removeComments()
void GuiLoader::removeComments() {
const unsigned tokenLength = 1;
static std::string::size_type indexA;
static std::string::size_type indexB;
const std::string commentStartingToken( "/" );
const std::string blockCommentStartingQualifier( "*" );
[Code] .....
An example of where this code will fail is when it encounters a single '/' any where on a line of text as it goes into an infinite loop. I am not sure on how to go about skipping this lonely '/' and advanced the index to look for a possible next '/' that belongs to a '//' or a '/*'. I know that this is sort of trivial, but for some reason or another I am having writers block.
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Jun 6, 2014
I'm using the Split method to parse line in a csv file. The following code works if there are no commas in the text of my data.
string csvLine;
string[] splitLine;
csvLine = "Jim Borland,1234,Never dreams in code";
splitLine = csvLine.Split(',');
But if I have commas in the some of the text as below I get then wrong output. So I need split on a commas which are not enclosed in double quotes.
string csvLine;
string[] splitLine;
csvLine = ""Jim,C,Borland",1234,"Never dreams in code"";
splitLine = csvLine.Split(',');
The output I want is:
Jim,C,Borland
1234
Never dreams in code
I found this :
If your strings are all well-formed it is possible with the following regular expression:
String[] res = str.split(",(?=([^"]|"[^"]*")*$)");
The expression ensures that a split occurs only at commas which are followed by an even (or zero) number of quotes ... and thus not inside such quotes).
Nevertheless, it may be easier to use a simple non-regex parser.
But the .split gives me an error and .Split doesn't work either.
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Jan 30, 2013
I have a text file with the following format
//MAIN OBJECT
Object = ControlNetwork
Created = 2013-01-28T12:26:17
//FIRST CONTROL POINT OBJECT
Object = ControlPoint
PointId = 1
[Code] ....
I want to get the X and Y coordinates of the each control points from 2 images.
For example, from the above file i want to retrieve such information:
-PointID=1 and point coordinates are 802,725(from image1) and 480,708 (from image2)
-PointID=2 and point coordinates are 317,130(from image1) and 128,116 (from image2)
There can be millions of points in such a text file. So what is the best way to parse these files?
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Feb 17, 2013
In the assignment we are forbidden to use fscanf(). I have been trying to get this to work, but I've started to realize that I do not have a complete understanding of what strtok() actually does. I'm getting this warning when debugging: "assignment makes integer from pointer without cast."
This warning happens when assigning str to goal and assist, and I think it is because they are, when dereferenced, integers. The code below correctly assigns the name into the correct spot, but leaves nonsense data in the goal and assist arrays.
ex:-7880, -7888 file example: NAME GOALS ASSISTS JOHN 1 2
Code:
void readLinesFromFile( FILE* Ptr, int* goal, int* assist, char** name, int lines ){/*
* Reads lines from files and populates the arrays with the corresponding info.
*/
int index;
char hold[ MAX_LINE ] = { 0 };
char* str = NULL;
[Code] .....
From what I understand about strtok(), it returns a string, and takes in a character array and a key value that tells it when to stop. In the online examples I've seen, they use NULL in the first field. I'm not sure why.
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Aug 30, 2013
I have a huge text file in following format:
{Bunch of text
.
.
}
[Code].....
I want to extract Text1, Text2, Text3, Text4,..., Text600 in the output file. How can i achieve this?
/* BTW, I am not getting my homework done here. I am an ex-programmer, who has now moved to marketing for some time now, and today, I encountered this problem, which I believe can be solved easily through programming. */
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Mar 22, 2014
I am using TinyXML 2 for the data of my RPG game, I am almost done with the tilemap parsing system, but I just couldn't figure out how to extract csv data that I have in my XML file, like this:
<data encoding="csv">
1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
1,9,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
[code]....
What I want to do is to extract this data using TinyXML 2 and to put the data into a 2D vector...how can I do that?
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