Text File Into Arrays

[Whando]

Hi guys, I am a beginner at this an was wondering if you could help. I have a text file which I can display in two columns as below, for example:

2.333,3433.333
233.33,33222.33
222.22,222.2222

I was wondering is it possible to store the two columns in two different arrays to go on and do further computations with? I am using the following code: -

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

int main () {
string line; //this will contain the data read from the file
ifstream mecg ("SC1000.txt"); //opening the maternal ECG
if (mecg.is_open()) //if the file is open
{
while (! mecg.eof() ) //while the end of file is NOT reached
{
getline (mecg,line); //get one line from the file
cout << line << endl; //print to screen
}
mecg.close(); //closing the file
}
else cout << "Unable to open file"; //if file does not open

return 0;
}

Any help would be great thanks!

[jsmith]

In programming virtually anything is possible, so the answer to your question is "yes".

[writetonsharma]

after fetching the line you can separate the line in two halfs and can store them in vector of string
you can do like this:

std::vector<std::string> col1, col2;

while (! mecg.eof() ) //while the end of file is NOT reached
{
getline (mecg,line); //get one line from the file

//take out first part
int pos = line.find(',');
col1.push_back(line.substr(0, pos));
//second part will be after the ',' 
col2.push_back(line.substr(pos + 1));
} 

you have the full file now, print both the vectors, do the error checking in the code.

[Whando]

Thanks that is great!