Processing an input file

[oEwqX9L8]

I'm writing a program that takes in a file in the format:
id number
name
address
phone number

The input file will repeat this set of four lines an unspecified number of times. I have a class with a member variable for each item and I want to put each instance of the class into a vector. I'm struggling to come up with a way to put each line into a different variable(int, string, string, string) and then keep repeating that for every four lines. My first idea was to use a stringstream but I couldn't get anywhere with that.

I use this to read in each line in the file.

  while (getline(studentFile,line)) {
        
    }

Can anyone give me some ideas to work with? Thanks for your help!

[jlb]

Is the file format fixed, or can you change it?

If you are able to change the format to something like: "id number,name,address,phone number" you could then use getline() to read the entire line, then use a stringstream to parse this line.

while(getline(studentFile, line))
{
   stringstream sin(line);
   getline(sin, id_number, ',');
   getline(sin, name, ',');
   getline(sin, address, ',');
   getline(sin, phone_number);
}

I also recommend that you treat the Id number as a string, since an ID number is not really a number.