C++: Read from text file and separate into variable

Question

I have this in a text file:

John 20 30 40
mike 30 20 10

How do i read from the text file and separate them into variable name, var1, var2,

Answer 1

It looks like you need to declare var1, var2, and var3.

Also instead of this:

      getline (myfile,name,'\t');
      getline (myfile,var1,'\t');
      getline (myfile,var2,'\t');
      getline (myfile,var3,'\t');

Try this:

  myfile >> name;
  myfile >> var1;
  myfile >> var2;
  myfile >> var3;

Not because what you had is wrong, but the second is cleaner and will handle all white space.