I wanna extract the data from the file so I can sort it out, add and delete files. How can I do it? My file contains a list of songs with the song name, artist and song duration.
Here is what I have so far:

//Nathaly Advincula
//Song Assignment

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

class Song
{
private:
	string title;
	string artist;
	double duration_sec;
public:
	//Defaul constructor
	Song ()
	{ title= "";
	  artist= "";
	  duration_sec=99; next=0;}
	//3 argument constructor
	Song (string st, string sa, double min)
	{ title=st;
	  artist=sa;
	  duration_sec=min*60; next=0;}	   
	void setTitle (string st)
	{ title=st; }
	void setArtist(string sa)
	{ artist=sa; }
	void setDuration_sec ( double min)
	{ duration_sec=min*60; }
	string getTitle ()
	{return title; }
	string getArtist ()
	{return artist; }
	double getDuration_sec ()
	{ return duration_sec; }
	Song *next;
};

class SongList
{
private:
	Song *head;
public: 
		 SongList()
		 { head=NULL; }
		 Song* getHead()
		 {  return head;}
		 //functions
		 void insertSong (Song *);
    	 void deleteSong (string);
		 double songCount ();
         void printTitle_n_Duration(double);
		 void printSong_by_Artist(string);

};

void SongList::insertSong(Song *ptrAddTitle)
{

 Song* nodePtr, *prevPtr;

 if(head == NULL || head->getTitle() >= ptrAddTitle->getTitle())
 {
  if(head != NULL)
   ptrAddTitle->next = head;
  
  head = ptrAddTitle;
  

 }
 else
 {
  prevPtr = head;
  nodePtr = head->next;
  //find point to insert
  while(nodePtr != NULL && nodePtr->getTitle() < ptrAddTitle->getTitle())
  {
   prevPtr = nodePtr;
   nodePtr = nodePtr->next;
  }

  prevPtr->next = ptrAddTitle;
  ptrAddTitle->next = nodePtr;

 }


}


void SongList::deleteSong(string title)
{

 Song* nodePtr, *prevPtr;

 //if(head == NULL) is the same thing as
 if(!head)
  return;

 //is the first element the one 2 delete
 if(head->getTitle() == title)
 {

  nodePtr = head;
  head = head->next;
  delete nodePtr;
 }
 else
 {
	 nodePtr = head;
  while(nodePtr != NULL && nodePtr->getTitle() != title)
  {
  prevPtr = nodePtr;
   nodePtr = nodePtr->next;
	
  }

  //if(nodePtr != NULL) is the smae thing as
  if(nodePtr)
  {
   prevPtr->next = nodePtr->next;
   delete nodePtr;
  }


 }

}

//count the number of songs contained in the SongList  (return the count)
double SongList::songCount ()
{
	 Song* nodePtr, *prevPtr;
	 double total=0;

 //if(head == NULL) is the same thing as
 if(!head)
  return 0;

 else
 {
	 nodePtr = head;

  while(nodePtr != NULL )
  {
   total++;
   prevPtr = nodePtr;
   nodePtr = nodePtr->next;
	
  }
 cout <<total<< endl;

 }

return total;	
}


//Print the title and the duration of every song that is longer than the number of minutes passed in as an argument. 
void SongList::printTitle_n_Duration(double mins)
{
	double secs=mins*60;

	Song* nodePtr, *prevPtr;

 //if(head == NULL) is the same thing as
 if(!head)
  return;

 else
 {
	 nodePtr = head;

 while(nodePtr != NULL)
  {if (nodePtr->getDuration_sec() > secs)
   cout <<"Title: "<<nodePtr->getTitle()<<" Duration: "<<nodePtr->getDuration_sec()<< endl;
 prevPtr = nodePtr;
 nodePtr = nodePtr->next; }

 }

}

//Print the title of every song in the list performed by a passed in artist as an argument
void SongList::printSong_by_Artist(string sArtist)
{
	Song* nodePtr, *prevPtr;

 //if(head == NULL) is the same thing as
 if(!head)
  return;

 else
 {
	 nodePtr = head;

 while(nodePtr != NULL)
  {if (nodePtr->getArtist() == sArtist)
   cout <<"Title: "<<nodePtr->getTitle()<< endl;
 prevPtr = nodePtr;
 nodePtr = nodePtr->next; }

 }

}


void main()
{

 ifstream reader;  //don't forget to #include <fstream>
 char songName[101], songArtist[101];
 int songLength;

 //*** Change to the location where you downloaded
 reader.open("C:\\nathaly\\songs.txt");  //open the appropriate file

 while(!reader.eof())
 {
  reader.getline(songName, 100, ',');  //reads the name of the song into songName
  reader.getline(songArtist, 100, ',');  //reads the artist of the song into songArtist
  reader >> songLength;
  reader.ignore();

 
  cout << "Song name:" << songName << endl;
  cout << "Song artist:" << songArtist << endl;
  cout << "Song duration:" << songLength << endl;

 }
 

 SongList Ipod;
 Song *ptr;
 
 ptr=new Song("Photogragh", "Nickelback" , 3.45);
 
 Ipod.insertSong (ptr);

 ptr=new Song("Mr. Brightside", "The Killers" , 2.30);

 Ipod.insertSong (ptr);

  ptr=new Song("Kansas", "The Killers" , 4 );
 
 Ipod.insertSong (ptr);

 ptr=new Song("Adagio for Strings", "Tiesto" , 2.5);

 Ipod.insertSong (ptr);

 ptr=new Song("Turbulence", "Tiesto" , 2.2);
 
 Ipod.insertSong (ptr);
 
 ptr=new Song("Zebra", "Nickelback" , 3.45);
 
 Ipod.insertSong (ptr);

 Song* curr=NULL;

 curr = Ipod.getHead();

 cout<<"INSERTED SONGS"<<endl;

 while(curr != NULL) 
 {
  cout << "Song Title:" << curr->getTitle() <<
   "    artist " << curr->getArtist() << "   duration " << curr->getDuration_sec()<< endl;

  curr = curr->next;

 }
 string name2delete;
 cout<<"WHAT SONG WOULD YOU LIKE TO DELETE?"<<endl;
 cin>>name2delete;
 Ipod.deleteSong(name2delete);
 
 cout << "NOT DELETED ITEMS\n"; 

 curr = Ipod.getHead();

 while(curr != NULL)
 {
  cout << "TITLE: " << curr->getTitle() <<
   " ARTIST " << curr->getArtist() <<   " DURATION " << curr->getDuration_sec() << endl;

  curr = curr->next;

 }

  cout<<"TOTAL OF SONGS"<<endl;
 
  Ipod.songCount ();

  double durVal;
  cout<<"PRINT SONGS LONGER THAN"<<endl;
  cin>>durVal;
  
  Ipod.printTitle_n_Duration(durVal);

  string searchArtist;
  cout<<"WHAT ARTIST WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEARCH?"<<endl;
  cin>>searchArtist;
  Ipod.printSong_by_Artist(searchArtist);


 
 reader.close();   //close the file

}

anyone?

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