{"id":24647,"date":"2022-12-04T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-reading-an-input-file-in-c\/"},"modified":"2022-12-04T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T11:27:00","slug":"solved-reading-an-input-file-in-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-reading-an-input-file-in-c\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Reading an input file in C++"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-55815977\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"55815977\" data-parentid=\"55815726\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"2\" data-highest-scored=\"0\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"0\" itemprop=\"suggestedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>doing<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><code>while (fin &gt;&gt; name &gt;&gt; var1 &gt;&gt; var2 &gt;&gt; var3)\n{\n    cout &lt;&lt; name &lt;&lt; var1 &lt;&lt; var2 &lt;&lt; var3 &lt;&lt; endl;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>you rewrite all the time on the same variables, you need to put the value in a vector as you say in your question<\/p>\n<p>you need also to check if each input is correct, currently you do not detect the invalid input<\/p>\n<p>and of course you need to check you open the file<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Example :<\/p>\n<pre><code>#include &lt;iostream&gt;\n#include &lt;fstream&gt;\n#include &lt;string&gt;\n#include &lt;vector&gt;\n\nint main()\n{\n  std::ifstream fin(\"inputFile.txt\");\n\n  if (!fin.is_open()) {\n    std::cerr &lt;&lt; \"cannot open inputFile.txt\" &lt;&lt; std::endl;\n    return -1;\n  }\n\n  int numberOfStates, numberOfSymbols, numberOfFinalStates;\n\n  if ((! (fin &gt;&gt; numberOfStates &gt;&gt; numberOfSymbols &gt;&gt; numberOfFinalStates))\n      || (numberOfStates &lt; 0)\n      || (numberOfSymbols &lt; 0)\n      || (numberOfFinalStates &lt; 0)) {\n    std::cerr &lt;&lt; \"invalid file\" &lt;&lt; std::endl;\n    return -1;\n  }\n\n  \/\/ final states are int, so memorize them in a vector of int\n  \/\/ because their number is known I can size it rather than \n  \/\/ to 'push_back' each value\n  std::vector&lt;int&gt; finalStates(numberOfFinalStates);\n\n  for (int &amp; ft : finalStates) {\n    if (! (fin &gt;&gt; ft)) {\n      std::cerr &lt;&lt; \"invalid file reading final states\" &lt;&lt; std::endl;\n      return -1;\n    }\n  }\n\n  int numberOfTransitions;\n\n  if (!(fin &gt;&gt; numberOfTransitions) || (numberOfTransitions &lt; 0))  {\n    std::cerr &lt;&lt; \"invalid file reading the number of transitions\" &lt;&lt; std::endl;\n    return -1;\n  }\n\n  \/\/ you say a transition contains 2 int and a char,\n  \/\/ I define a structure for\n  \/\/ i1 i2 and c are 'poor' names but I don't know their goal\n  struct Transition {\n    int i1, i2; \n    char c;\n  };\n\n  \/\/ the transitions saved in a vector\n  std::vector&lt;Transition&gt; transitions(numberOfTransitions);\n\n  for (Transition &amp; tr : transitions) {\n    if (!(fin &gt;&gt; tr.i1 &gt;&gt; tr.i2 &gt;&gt; tr.c)) {\n      std::cerr &lt;&lt; \"invalid file reading transitions\" &lt;&lt; std::endl;\n      return -1;\n    }\n  }\n\n  \/\/ print to check\n\n  std::cout &lt;&lt; \"numberOfStates=\" &lt;&lt; numberOfStates &lt;&lt; std::endl;\n  std::cout &lt;&lt; \"numberOfSymbols=\" &lt;&lt; numberOfSymbols &lt;&lt; std::endl;\n  std::cout &lt;&lt; \"numberOfFinalStates=\" &lt;&lt; numberOfFinalStates &lt;&lt; \"\\nfinalStates:\";\n  for (int ft : finalStates) \n     std::cout &lt;&lt; ' ' &lt;&lt; ft;\n  std::cout &lt;&lt; std::endl;\n  std::cout &lt;&lt; \"numberOfTransitions=\" &lt;&lt; numberOfTransitions\n    &lt;&lt; \"\\ntransitions:\" &lt;&lt; std::endl;\n  for (const Transition &amp; tr : transitions)\n    std::cout &lt;&lt; '\\t' &lt;&lt; tr.i1 &lt;&lt; ' ' &lt;&lt; tr.i2 &lt;&lt; ' ' &lt;&lt; tr.c &lt;&lt; std::endl;\n\n  return 0;\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Compilation and execution :<\/p>\n<pre><code>pi@raspberrypi:\/tmp $ g++ -pedantic -Wextra -Wall a.cc\npi@raspberrypi:\/tmp $ cat inputFile.txt\n10 \n3 \n1 \n9 \n12 \n0 1 f \n0 3 f \n1 2 a \n2 9 f \n3 4 f \n3 8 f \n4 5 b \n5 6 f \n6 7 a \n8 9 f \npi@raspberrypi:\/tmp $ .\/a.out\ninvalid file reading transitions\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>The error comes because the file contains only 10 transitions rather than 12 expected, modifying the file to expect 10 transitions :<\/p>\n<pre><code>pi@raspberrypi:\/tmp $ .\/a.out\nnumberOfStates=10\nnumberOfSymbols=3\nnumberOfFinalStates=1\nfinalStates: 9\nnumberOfTransitions=10\ntransitions:\n    0 1 f\n    0 3 f\n    1 2 a\n    2 9 f\n    3 4 f\n    3 8 f\n    4 5 b\n    5 6 f\n    6 7 a\n    8 9 f\npi@raspberrypi:\/tmp $ \n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">2<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Reading an input file in C++ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] doing while (fin &gt;&gt; name &gt;&gt; var1 &gt;&gt; var2 &gt;&gt; var3) { cout &lt;&lt; name &lt;&lt; var1 &lt;&lt; var2 &lt;&lt; var3 &lt;&lt; endl; } you rewrite all the time on the same variables, you need to put the value in a vector as you say in your question you need also to check if &#8230; <a title=\"[Solved] Reading an input file in C++\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-reading-an-input-file-in-c\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Solved] Reading an input file in C++\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[324,892],"class_list":["post-24647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solved","tag-c","tag-fstream"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>[Solved] Reading an input file in C++ - JassWeb<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-reading-an-input-file-in-c\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"[Solved] Reading an input file in C++ - JassWeb\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ad_1] doing while (fin &gt;&gt; name &gt;&gt; var1 &gt;&gt; var2 &gt;&gt; var3) { cout &lt;&lt; name &lt;&lt; var1 &lt;&lt; var2 &lt;&lt; var3 &lt;&lt; endl; } you rewrite all the time on the same variables, you need to put the value in a vector as you say in your question you need also to check if ... 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