reading in from a file to a certain point

[sk8sensei]

hi all, question here about how to most efficiently do some file reading.

I have a txt file, and must read through the data until i hit
a certain word (we'll call it "word" in this case)

so file would look something like this

datadatadata
datadatadata
datadatadata
word
datadatadata
datadatadata

i was doing

while (infile != "word")
{
do task
}

but that didn't work.

Thanks for any advice

[metl wolf]

although ugly, it gets the job done, considering "word" is what your looking for =P

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

void readnote()
{
    char* filename[256];
    cout << "Your note: \n" << endl;
    *filename=((char*)"sunday.txt"); // or whatever file you want to read from
    ifstream filein(*filename);
    char b[256];
    for(;;)
    {
       filein >> b;
       if (b[0]=='w')
       {
           if (b[1]=='o')
           {
               if (b[2]=='r')
               {
                   if (b[3]=='d')
                   {
                       return;
                   }
               }
           }
       }

       if (filein.fail()) break;
       cout << b << " ";
       if (filein.eof()) break;
    }
    return;
}
int main()
{
    readnote();
    return 0;
}

[metl wolf]

you may edit it to your liking/usage

EDIT:: i got this function from one of my programs, and edited it to answer your question. so if it doesnt work right, just let me know