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for starters im just learning C++ so forgive my ignorance...
that being said... i need to pull 3 bits of info out of a text file.

  • Last name (name) - stored as a string
  • First initial (initial) - stored as a single character

  • Account balance (account) - stored as an int

    EG of text file:

         Alexander G 3031
     Webb O 6791
     Mueller U 1971
     Stokes A 2794
     Berger U 5766
     Garrison A 1074
     Franco E 2367
     Peters J 4828
     Stokes Q 8398
     Harrell O 2832

this is the code i have is....

  ifstream myfile ("small_names.txt");

  if (myfile.is_open())
  {
    while (! myfile.eof() )
    {

// this gets me through the file line by line but i have no idea how to pull the data out word by word....

      String lastN ;
      char firstN ;
      int amount ;

// b is a binary tree i have storing a customer class

      b.insert(lastN, firstN, amount);
}
myfile.close();
}

else cout << "Unable to open file" << endl;

thanks for any help.

Edited by Reverend Jim because: Fixed formatting
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The ifstream operator takes care of anything considering variable types.

myfile >> lastN >> firstN >> amount;
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That is really cool.
Thanks a ton.

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