getline in fstream

[Mobius1]

my assignment has me taking data from a .txt file and putting it in a program and doing some calculations with it.

the .txt file.

400 25.5 1/4 pound hamburger

400 is the calories, 25.5 is the fat, and 1/4 pound hamburger is the foods name.

my code

#include<iostream>
#include<fstream>
#include <string>
#include<iomanip>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
	ifstream inFile;
        string Food;
	float Calories, FatCalories, FatPercent;

	inFile.open("C:\\Users\\Kyle\\Documents\\Visual Studio 2012\\Projects\\Homework_7\\food.txt");
	
	inFile >> Calories;
	cout << Calories << endl;

	inFile >> FatCalories;
	cout << FatCalories << endl;

	inFile >> Food;
	cout << Food << endl;

im not sure how to make the getline command grab the entire
1/4 pound hamburger from the file and not just the 1/4. Ive tried cin.getline(Food,20) instead of inFile >> Food; but im getting errors from that.

Anyone know what i need to pull the 1/4 pound hamburger into the Food string?

[shacktar]

After reading FatCalories, you could use std::getline

...

inFile >> FatCalories;
cout << FatCalories << endl;

std::getline(inFile, Food);

You may need to trim the whitespace before reading Food like this:

inFile >> ws;

[Mobius1]

Thanks that was just what i needed!