First, make an ifstream:
#include
std::ifstream infile("thefile.txt");
The two standard methods are:
1. *Assume that every line consists of two numbers and read token by token*:
***
int a, b;
while (infile >> a >> b)
{
// process pair (a,b)
}
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2. *Line-based parsing, using string streams*:
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#include
#include
std::string line;
while (std::getline(infile, line))
{
std::istringstream iss(line);
int a, b;
if (!(iss >> a >> b)) { break; } // error
// process pair (a,b)
}
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You shouldn't mix (1) and (2), since the token-based parsing doesn't gobble up newlines, so you may end up with spurious empty lines if you use getline() after token-based extraction got you to the end of a line already.