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From: ads@gateway.mitre.org (Alexas D. Skucas)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Input Streams
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.211045.16370@linus.mitre.org>
Date: 7 Mar 91 21:10:45 GMT
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I'm a bit confused about how to skip to the next line when using
input streams in C++.

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?

Currently I use cin.get(buf,1000) which puts everything into buf 
(up to 1000 characters) until it hits a new line character.  Is there
a more elegant way to do this?  I don't like having to use a buffer
since that eats up memory space.

Thanks for any advice

Alex
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