Reading a Matrix txt file and storing as an array

[Temperedsoul]

Greetings everyone, new to the forums but a good fan of cplusplus as a resource for scripting.

I'm currently writing a Simulated Annealing code to solve a traveling salesman problem and have run into difficulties with storing and using my read data from a txt file. Each row & columb in the file reprisents each city, with the distance between two different cities stored as a matrix:

0.0 5.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 2.0 5.0 2.0 1.0 5.0 5.0 1.0 2.0 7.1 5.0
5.0 0.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 2.0 5.0 1.0 5.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 1.0 7.1
5.0 5.0 0.0 6.0 1.0 6.0 5.0 5.0 1.0 6.0 5.0 7.0 1.0 5.0 6.0
6.0 5.0 6.0 0.0 5.0 2.0 1.0 6.0 5.0 6.0 2.0 1.0 2.0 1.0 5.0
7.0 5.0 1.0 5.0 0.0 7.0 1.0 1.0 2.0 1.0 5.0 6.0 2.0 2.0 5.0
2.0 2.0 6.0 2.0 7.0 0.0 5.0 5.0 6.0 5.0 2.0 5.0 1.0 2.0 5.0
5.0 5.0 5.0 1.0 1.0 5.0 0.0 2.0 6.0 1.0 5.0 7.0 5.0 1.0 6.0
2.0 1.0 5.0 6.0 1.0 5.0 2.0 0.0 7.0 6.0 2.0 1.0 1.0 5.0 2.0
1.0 5.0 1.0 5.0 2.0 6.0 6.0 7.0 0.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 1.0 6.0 6.0
5.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 1.0 5.0 1.0 6.0 5.0 0.0 7.0 1.0 2.0 5.0 2.0
5.0 6.0 5.0 2.0 5.0 2.0 5.0 2.0 5.0 7.0 0.0 2.0 1.0 2.0 1.0
1.0 6.0 7.0 1.0 6.0 5.0 7.0 1.0 5.0 1.0 2.0 0.0 5.0 6.0 5.0
2.0 6.0 1.0 2.0 2.0 1.0 5.0 1.0 1.0 2.0 1.0 5.0 0.0 7.0 6.0
7.0 1.0 5.0 1.0 2.0 2.0 1.0 5.0 6.0 5.0 2.0 6.0 7.0 0.0 5.0
5.0 7.0 6.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 6.0 2.0 6.0 2.0 1.0 5.0 6.0 5.0 0.0

To read this I have a LoadCities() function as shown below:

#include "iostream"
#include "fstream"		
#include "string"	
using namespace std;

double distances [15][15];	

void LoadCities()
{
	ifstream CityFile;
	    
    if (!CityFile.is_open()) //check is file has been opened
    {
        CityFile.open ("Cities.txt", ios::in | ios::out);

	if (!CityFile)
        {
            cerr << "Failed to open " << CityFile << endl;
            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);  //abort program
	}
    }

	int length;
	char * buffer;
	string cities;

	CityFile.seekg(0, ios::end);
	length = CityFile.tellg();
	CityFile.seekg (0, ios::beg);

	buffer = new char [length];

	cities = CityFile.read (buffer,length); 

	string rows = strtok(cities, "\n");

	distances = new double[rows.length()][rows.length()];

            for (int i = 0; i < (string) rows.length(); i++)
            {
                string distance = strtok(rows[i], " ");

                for (int j = 0; j < distance.length(); j++)
                {
                    distances[i][j] = (double) Parse(distance[j]);
                }
            }

	CityFile.close();
}

I've been bashing my head with Lines 24-48 with little success. Any help with geting the class and conversions right would be very much accpriciated!