(C++) While reading a file (ifstream), is there any way to direct it to make a new line?

Question

While reading a file (ifstream), is there any way to direct it to make a new line?

For instance, I would like for THIS to happen:

myfile>>array[1]>>array[2]>>endl;

Obviously, the "endl" just isn't allowed. Is there another way to do this?

Edit---thanks for the quick responses guys!

From a text file, I'm trying to store two strings from that file into arrays and then do the same with the next line (or until I desire, using a for loop)

Using strings is important to me as it will make my future program a lot more flexible.

Answer 1

Read your two items, then call myfile.ignore(8192, '\n')

Answer 2

Several options:

You can use ignore.

myfile >> array[1] >> array[2];
myfile.ignore(std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');

Or you can read each line into as string stream

std::string line;
std::getline(myfile,line);
std::stringstream  stream(line);

stream >> array[1] >> array[2];

Please note: Array indexing starts at 0.

Answer 3

Use std::getline to read a line into a memory stream, then get the two strings from that.

while (cin)
{
  string line;
  getline(cin, line);

  stringstream stream;
  stream << line;

  stream >> array[1]>>array[2];
}

Answer 4

I have no idea what this question means. Here's a simple way to read all the lines of a file into a vector of strings. It might be easier to do what you want to do if you do this first.

std::vector<std::string> lines;

std::string line;
while (std::getline(myFile, line))
    lines.push_back(line);

Now you can say lines[4] to get the fifth line, or lines.size() to find out how many lines there were.

Answer 5

This should work:

stringstream stream;
string sLine;
int iLine;

while (cin)
{
  getline(cin, sLine);

  stream << sLine;
  stream >> data[iLine][0] >> data[iLine][1];
}

Customized version of an earlier answer.