From: Neil Goldberg <ngoldber AT mitre DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Help with input streams
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 12:41:47 +0100
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justinfl AT my-deja DOT com wrote:
> 
> I'm here with yet another stupid question, but i'm just starting, so
> that's okay  :) ....I'm trying to read a line of a text file.  to my
> understanding in c++ (djgpp compiler), i would use infile.read() or
> infile.get().....i'm not sure of the exact syntax and the variables
> involved.  i'm also curious as to which of these two commands would be
> best to read each line (80 chars) of a file, or if another command would
> be simpler.  Thanks for the help!
> 

infile.getline(my_buffer, max_characters);

The function stops either at a carriage return or max_characters
(make max_characters and your buffer size fairly large if you don't
want long lines to be broken into pieces).

moogla