Get string from input file until integer?

[hanipman]

One of my input files which looks like this:

Stroustrup, Bjarne  8   8   -1  -1  -1
Lovelace, Ada   1   60  14  43  -1
von Neumann, Jon    77  48  65  -1  -1
Wirth, Niklaus  51  59  -1  -1  -1
Wozniak, Steve  81  -1  -1  -1  -1
Babbage, Charles    31  92  -1  -1  -1
Hopper, Grace   76  -1  -1  -1  -1
Bird, Tweety    -99 -99 -99 -99 -99
Sylvester           77  39  -1  -1  -1

Currently my program streams the data in using

infile >> lastName >> firstName >> ...

Unfortunately this only worked with the other input files because every line actually had a last and first name. Here, because of the two part last name in the third line and only the first name in the last line, the rest of the data fails to stream. Is there any method to grab a string from the beginning of the line until it reaches an integer?

[nvrmnd]

how about :

// if you don't know how many elements you will read
std::vector<std::string> name( 5 ); // we allocate 5 initially to prevent excess push_back()'s
std::vector<int> col1( 5 );
std::vector<int> col2( 5 );
std::vector<int> col3( 5 );
std::vector<int> col4( 5 );
std::vector<int> col5( 5 );

std::string tempLastname;
std::string tempFirstName;
int ntemp;

while( getline( infile, tempLastName, ',') ) { //http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/getline/
    //-- read name, store in name vector
    infile >> tempFirstName;
    name.push_back( tempLastName + ', ' + tempFirstName ); // append
    //-- read first num
    infile >> ntemp;
    col1.push_back( ntemp );
    //-- read sec
    infile >> ntemp;
    col2.push_back( ntemp );
    //-- 3rd
    infile >> ntemp;
    col3.push_back( ntemp );
    //-- 4th
    infile >> ntemp;
    col4.push_back( ntemp );
    //-- 5th
    infile >> ntemp;
    col5.push_back( ntemp );

    infile.ignore();
}

remember to #include <string> and #include <vector>