extracting strings from files -- newbie question

[Pabs666]

pretty basic problem but my C++ is pretty far back

here's my problem

I have to read a text file and parse all the different field

ex:

001 R0S11 182983 2009/02/22 45607
002 R0S12 182983 2009/02/23 45707
003 R0S13 182983 2009/02/16 45807
004 R0S14 182983 2009/02/04 45907
....

once I've read the file I need to parse all the fields within it in order to validate each field based on certain criteria

I figure that once I read the file I would dump all the data in its respective variable

what is the bet way to read the data and extract each field from each line

thanks for any help

Pabs

[death_oclock]

Use fgets to read one line, strtok to split each line between spaces, sscanf to break apart each value. Do this all in a loop to read multiple lines.

[Ancient Dragon]

This is c++, not C. So use c++ ifstream to read the file one word at a time. Is there a need to keep the individual fields with the entire line? If not, then you don't have to keep them in memory, just read the file one word at a time

#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
...
...
ifstream in("in.txt");
std::string word;
while( in >> word )
{
   // do something
}

Or if you need to retain the entire line

#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;
...
...
ifstream in("in.txt");
string word;
string line;
while( getline(in, line) )
{
    stringstream str(line);
    while( str >> word )
    {
         // do something
    }
}