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From: garnett@savage.bellcore.com (Michael Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Input Streams
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.142332.9284@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 14:23:32 GMT
References: <1991Mar7.211045.16370@linus.mitre.org>
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In article <1991Mar7.211045.16370@linus.mitre.org>, ads@gateway.mitre.org (Alexas D. Skucas) writes:
[...]
|> 
|> For example, if I am reading from a file that has ten entries on a line
|> and decided to skip to the next line after reading only two of the
|> entries, how do I do it?
|> 
[...]
|> Alex
|> ads@gateway.mitre.org


	use the ignore method of the istream class:
		ifstream F("somefile.txt");
		/* code that reads the 2 entries ... */
		F.ignore(255, '\n');		// eat up to 255 characters and stop after
										// extracting the '\n'
										// the use of 255 is arbitrary...I assume that
										// your text lines are going to be less than 255
										// characters long.
	is that what you wanted?
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