Writing .csv files from C++

Question

I\'m trying to output some data to a .csv file and it is outputting it to the file but it isn\'t separating the data into different columns and seems to be outputting the da

Answer 1

Here is a STL-like class

File "csvfile.h"

#pragma once

#include 
#include 

class csvfile;

inline static csvfile& endrow(csvfile& file);
inline static csvfile& flush(csvfile& file);

class csvfile
{
    std::ofstream fs_;
    const std::string separator_;
public:
    csvfile(const std::string filename, const std::string separator = ";")
        : fs_()
        , separator_(separator)
    {
        fs_.exceptions(std::ios::failbit | std::ios::badbit);
        fs_.open(filename);
    }

    ~csvfile()
    {
        flush();
        fs_.close();
    }

    void flush()
    {
        fs_.flush();
    }

    void endrow()
    {
        fs_ << std::endl;
    }

    csvfile& operator << ( csvfile& (* val)(csvfile&))
    {
        return val(*this);
    }

    csvfile& operator << (const char * val)
    {
        fs_ << '"' << val << '"' << separator_;
        return *this;
    }

    csvfile& operator << (const std::string & val)
    {
        fs_ << '"' << val << '"' << separator_;
        return *this;
    }

    template
    csvfile& operator << (const T& val)
    {
        fs_ << val << separator_;
        return *this;
    }
};


inline static csvfile& endrow(csvfile& file)
{
    file.endrow();
    return file;
}

inline static csvfile& flush(csvfile& file)
{
    file.flush();
    return file;
}

File "main.cpp"

#include "csvfile.h"

int main()
{
    try
    {
        csvfile csv("MyTable.csv"); // throws exceptions!
        // Header
        csv << "X" << "VALUE"        << endrow;
        // Data
        csv <<  1  << "String value" << endrow;
        csv <<  2  << 123            << endrow;
        csv <<  3  << 1.f            << endrow;
        csv <<  4  << 1.2            << endrow;
    }
    catch (const std::exception& ex)
    {
        std::cout << "Exception was thrown: " << e.what() << std::endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

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