Reading files using ifstream?

[JRevor]

First of all , i want to note I already know how the files work (..at least in PASCAL) . Im trying to read a simple text file, in this format

//Comments..
//Comments...
//comments...
//... 

[1,2,3,4,5]
[1,2,3]
[2,3}
[9,8,6,2,7,2]

In my code, i do

   char st[256];
   ifstream fe(route.c_str()); 
   fe >> st;
   while (st[1] == '/')  fe >> st; // Im trying to skip all the "//" parts 

When i do fe >> c-string-object , what am i exactly storing? A char vector that contains all the elements of fe, from the file manager's pointer up to '\n' or its EOF? Am i writing strange symbols at the beginning of st when i do fe >> st? (such as the length of the data im reading, etc, etc..)

More importantly... is there any tutorial you'd recommend me?

Thanks

[Bazzy]

Here are a tutorial and some reference pages:
http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files/
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/ifstream/
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/istream/getline/
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/getline/

You should use getline and C++ strings

[JRevor]

Thanks a lot, Bazzy, that was the help I needed.