Skip lines in std::istream

Question

I\'m using std::getline() to read lines from an std::istream-derived class, how can I move forward a few lines?

Do I have to just read and discard them?

Answer 1

For what it's worth:

void skip_lines(std::istream& pStream, size_t pLines)
{
    std::string s;
    for (; pLines; --pLines)
        std::getline(pStream, s);
}