file manipulation

[pabs]

pretty basic problem but my C++ is pretty far back

here's my problem

I have to read a text file and parse all the different field

ex:

001 R0S11 182983 2009/02/22 45607
002 R0S12 182983 2009/02/23 45707
003 R0S13 182983 2009/02/16 45807
004 R0S14 182983 2009/02/04 45907
....



once I've read the file I need to parse all the fields within it in order to validate each field based on certain criteria

I figure that once I read the file I would dump all the data in its respective variable

what is the bet way to read the data and extract each field from each line

thanks for any help

Pabs

[maros522]

You can use iostream library.