Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Daniel T., post: 2543498"] Do the lines have to maintain their order? Maybe this will help: ifstream afile( "document_name" ); string str; while ( getline( afile, str ) ) { try { // lexical_cast can be found in the boost library string::size_type comma = str.find( ',' ); int doc_num = lexical_cast<int>( str.substr( 0, comma ) ); char rev = str.substr( comma + 1 ).at( 0 ); // at this point the line has been parsed. // do what you want to it. } catch (...) { cerr << "bad data found in document"; } } [/QUOTE]