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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Stream library
Keywords: streams istrstream scanf
Message-ID: <634@taumet.com>
Date: 23 Mar 91 19:53:53 GMT
References: <945@ticnj.UUCP>
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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srs@ticnj.UUCP (Scott Strool) writes:


>I can get istrstream to read an entire line but how do you tell istrstream
>to read until a specific character or a predetermined length.

Use
	getline(char* ptr, int len, char delim);
This reads up to len characters or to the delimiter, whichever comes
first.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com