However, the premise is the same:
+You take in the data from the file and dump it into a variable
+You then 'tokenize' the data. This means that if you have a string like
"Orange Bannana Apple"
and you want to get the individual words you use a white space as the token (' ') and do the following loop:

-Find the first instance of the token and tokenize (like split the string into components). You basically copy all the data before the token and the data after and dump the first section of the string into one variable and dump the data after the token into another variable and you then do the loop again on the second variable.
Well, thats how I do it anyway.

eg pseudo code (assuming you have read in the data into the var Data:
var Data, String1, String2;
Data = FileRead();
int pos;
pos = Data.Pos(' ');
String1 = substr(Data,0,pos-1);
String2 = substr(Data,pos+1,Data.Length());
loop
{
pos = String2.Pos(' ');
String1 = substr(String2,0,pos-1);
String2 = substr(String2,pos+1,String2.Length());
if(String2 == "")
break;
}

Well, thats kinda how you do it off the top of my head.

Hope thats helps in a kinda pseudo way

Ah, this makes it a bit easier. Use IOStream objects:
string data;
ifstream file;
file.open(Filename, ios_base::in);

if (!file.is_open())
return -1;


while(getline(file, data))
{
//Do your processing here
}

Quote:
what if it was all on one line though

Then you use the method I stated before but use the above method to get the different lines. You need to do some string processing and tokenize the information to get the individual names out of different lines.

An example of string tokenizing

The String class is your friend[smile]

Quote:
strok(..)

Indeed, if you want to just stick with chars or if you want it to look nice and neat then definitly use strtok. My method is somewhat bruteforce [smile] Comes from many years of Borland C++ Builder before Visual C++ [wink]

Anyway, you should now be fully equipped to parse any string no matter what kinda format its in.
If you need practice to remember how to do it, try parsing some INI files, they are really easy [smile]

[Edited by - MotionCoil on May 25, 2005 6:10:39 PM]