Why does reading a record struct fields from std::istream fail, and how can I fix it?

Question

Suppose we have the following situation:

• A record struct is declared as follows

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struct Person {
    unsigned int id;
    std::st         


        

Answer 1

Another attempt at solving the parsing problem.

int main()
{
   std::ifstream ifs("test-115.in");
   std::vector persons;

   while (true)
   {
      Person actRecord;
      // Read the ID and the first part of the name.
      if ( !(ifs >> actRecord.id >> actRecord.name ) )
      {
         break;
      }

      // Read the rest of the line.
      std::string line;
      std::getline(ifs,line);

      // Pickup the rest of the name from the rest of the line.
      // The last token in the rest of the line is the age.
      // All other tokens are part of the name.
      // The tokens can be separated by ' ' or '\t'.
      size_t pos = 0;
      size_t iter1 = 0;
      size_t iter2 = 0;
      while ( (iter1 = line.find(' ', pos)) != std::string::npos ||
              (iter2 = line.find('\t', pos)) != std::string::npos )
      {
         size_t iter = (iter1 != std::string::npos) ? iter1 : iter2;
         actRecord.name += line.substr(pos, (iter - pos + 1));
         pos = iter + 1;

         // Skip multiple whitespace characters.
         while ( isspace(line[pos]) )
         {
            ++pos;
         }
      }

      // Trim the last whitespace from the name.
      actRecord.name.erase(actRecord.name.size()-1);

      // Extract the age.
      // std::stoi returns an integer. We are assuming that
      // it will be small enough to fit into an uint8_t.
      actRecord.age = std::stoi(line.substr(pos).c_str());

      // Debugging aid.. Make sure we have extracted the data correctly.
      std::cout << "ID: " << actRecord.id
         << ", name: " << actRecord.name
         << ", age: " << (int)actRecord.age << std::endl;
      persons.push_back(actRecord);
   }

   // If came here before the EOF was reached, there was an
   // error in the input file.
   if ( !(ifs.eof()) ) {
       std::cerr << "Input format error!" << std::endl;
   } 
}