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Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 11:35:53 -0400
From: Sean <sproctor AT enter DOT net>
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Unigni wrote:
> 
> I'm making a program which needs to read a mixture of number and words
> from a text file. For words, I'd use:
>   char name[10];
> or something like that, to be able to store a word up to 10 characters
> long, and read data from the file into this ("dataFile >> name;"). I
> also use:
>   int number;
> to be able to read a number. However, when reading more than one lot of
> data, I could use:
>   int number[5];
> but what would I do for 'name', and how would I read data into it from a
> file?
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Depends what you're using to read.  If you're using C++ you could do
something like this.  I'm assuming you want to know how to put the names
in arrays, I'm not really sure what you want.

#include <fstream.h>
...

ifstream infile("filename");
char name[5][10];
for(int k = 0; k < 5; k++)
  infile >> name[k];

This would read 5 names of up to 9 characters (not 10, you need the null
to end the string) separated by white space from file filename into your
array.

Sean