getline function is giving unexpected results!!
I have used this function many times but for some reason I am not getting what I expect. I am writing a parser program, everything is working well but when I tried to get the first lexeme (word or operator) the program kept returning { which was not in the input file, I then tried to use getline() and I got this as a result: {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf949\cocoasubrtf540
Does anyone have any idea why this occurred?? I am using a mac and i was not sure if using an rtf file as my input file made a difference
Here is the main function:
[code]
main()
{
ifstream datafile ("dataFile.rtf");
string line;
if (datafile.is_open())
{
while (! datafile.eof())
{
//char temp;
//temp = datafile.get();
// cout << temp << endl;
getline (datafile, line);
cout << line << endl;
getChar();
do
{
//lex();
}
while (nextToken != EOF);
}
} else {
cout << "ERROR - cannot open data.rtf \n";
}
}
Does anyone have any idea why this occurred?? I am using a mac and i was not sure if using an rtf file as my input file made a difference
Here is the main function:
[code]
main()
{
ifstream datafile ("dataFile.rtf");
string line;
if (datafile.is_open())
{
while (! datafile.eof())
{
//char temp;
//temp = datafile.get();
// cout << temp << endl;
getline (datafile, line);
cout << line << endl;
getChar();
do
{
//lex();
}
while (nextToken != EOF);
}
} else {
cout << "ERROR - cannot open data.rtf \n";
}
}
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