Reading some lines with diferent variables

[Nuno Santos]

Hi!!

I'm new here and new programming in C++.

I'm doing a program that I need t read from a file some information.
That information consist in a level number and a board information like this:
level-1
000000
000000
001100
001100
000000
000000
level-2
000000
000000
011110
011110
000000
000000

My question is: How can I read a "level" independent of the other information on the file?

I already try with some code on th forum, but didn't solve the problem.

Regards,

[Nuno Santos]

Anyone can help on this?

[jyU4izwU]

is This On Note Pad Or In Your Code

[andywestken]

If you've alread tried, why don't you post the code, so we can help you fix it?

(As you're new... post your code using code tags, of course)

Andy

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[zsteve]

assuming you want to parse some sort of ini-like file with :

<header>
data data data
...

1) skip lines until you find <header> (or level-n)
2) skip one more line
3) read data

[Nuno Santos]

Hi...

Sorry, my mistake... :(

Here you have the code already done...

This was my first:

void CFrogsJumpBoard::Read_Level()
{
	int x, y;
    ifstream fich ("Level.txt");
    for(int i=0;i<6;i++){
    	for(int j=0;j<6;j++) {
            //fich >> board[i][j];
            if (board[i][j]==0) {board[i][j]=0;}
            if (board[i][j]==1) {board[i][j]=1;}
            if (board[i][j]==2) {board[i][j]=178;}
    	}
	}
}

Then I try with this:

void CFrogsJumpBoard::Read_Level()
 {
	ifstream load ("Level.txt");
	if(!load){cout << "Nao foi possivel carregar o jogo guardado." << endl;}
	load >> Level;
	for(int i=0;i<6;i++){
		for(int j=0;j<6;j++){
			load >> board[i][j];
			cout << board[i][j];
			system ("pause");
		}}
		
	load.close();

}

But in first place, can you tell me if in the file txt i need to give a space under the numbers?

Regards.

[andywestken]

Yep, your code will deal with "0 0 1 1 0 0" but not "001100" (i.e. space between the numbers?)

Edit:

If you mean space between the numbers? i.e. "0 0 1 1 0 0" versus "001100", then...

If you're using an int array for your board, and reading into it directly, then yes; you'll need spaces.

If it uses chars, no.

But if you do want to use an int array for some reason, then you could read into a temporary char variable and then use that to set the int array element. This will also handle the no-space case.

(Or you could even read e.g. "001100" into a string and then extract the chars one by one...)

Andy

PS You can do with out the close() at the end; ifstream's destructor will call it for you.

[Nuno Santos]

Hi...

It's running now with this code...

bool FrogJumpTable::load_level(const char *filename)
 {
	string file="Level.txt";
	ifstream load (filename);
	char ch;
    if (load.is_open())
  	{
		load >> level;
		for(int i=0; i<6; i++) 			
                  {for(int j=0; j<6; j++)
	            load >> table [i][j];}	
    load.close();
  }
  else cout << "Unable to open file" << endl;
  return 0;
}

But now I need to increase the file name... (Level1.txt;Level2.txt;Level3.txt;...)

do you know how to do it?

[zsteve]

do you mean that you want to use the function with multiple files?

[giblit]

Probably not the most efficient way but maybe try something like this

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

int** read_file( const std::string &filename )
{
    const auto size( 6 );
    auto **array = new int*[ size ];

    for( auto i = 0; i < size; ++i )
    {
        array[ i ] = new int[ size ];
    }

    std::ifstream in( filename );
    for( auto i = 0; i < size; ++i )
    {
        for( auto j = 0; j < size; ++j )
        {
            array[ i ][ j ] = in.get() - '0';
        }
    }

    return( array );
}

int main()
{
    auto array = read_file( "Giblit.txt" );
    for( auto i = 0; i < 6; ++i )
    {
        for( auto j = 0; j < 6; ++j )
        {
            std::cout << array[ i ][ j ] << std::endl;
        }
    }

    return( 0 );
}

*slight fix

[AlitCandle]

This may help:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>


using namespace std;

int main()
{
	ofstream iambored("hello.txt");
	iambored<<"Matthew 14 4";
	iambored.close();
	ifstream ihatemathhomework("hello.txt");
	string dontwannadoit;
	getline(ihatemathhomework,dontwannadoit , '\0');
	string thisismatthew=dontwannadoit.substr(dontwannadoit.find("Matthew"),7);
	cout<<thisismatthew;
        ihatemathhomework.close();


	return 0;
}

I just did that for a guy in another thread

[AlitCandle]

I suggest storing all the information in a string using getline. If this file is huge then have a special delineating character. Use '\0' if you want the whole file. Then use string::find to find where "level-1" is. Use string::find to find where "level-2" is. Use string::substr to save everything inbetween to another string. After that you would go one at a time and search every element and save it to a vector.

[Nuno Santos]

Hi... Sorry for the late reply. Thanks all for your help.

I already solve the problem with this code. Could help if someone have a problem like thiss one.

{
	int nr1, nr2;
	string file ("Level\\Level_");
 	string type (".txt");
 	if (Level<10) nr1=char(48);
 		else nr1=char ((Level/10)+48);
	nr2 = char((Level%10)+48);
	file += nr1;
	file += nr2;
	file += type;
	ifstream in;
	in.open(file.c_str());
	if (in.is_open())
	{
	for(int i=0; i<dim; i++) 			
            {for(int j=0; j<dim; j++)
	            in >> board[j][i];}
	in.close();
	}
	else {
		gotoxy (0,40);
		cout << "Unable to open file" << endl;
		return false;
	}
}

Thanks again for all your help.
Regards