C++ string parsing (python style)

Question

I love how in python I can do something like:

points = []
for line in open(\"data.txt\"):
    a,b,c = map(float, line.split(\',\'))
    points += [(a,b,c)]
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Answer 1

All these good examples aside, in C++ you would normally override the operator >> for your point type to achieve something like this:

point p;
while (file >> p)
    points.push_back(p);

or even:

copy(
    istream_iterator(file),
    istream_iterator(),
    back_inserter(points)
);

The relevant implementation of the operator could look very much like the code by j_random_hacker.