Using ifstream to read floats

Question

I\'m trying to read a series of floats from a .out file using ifstream, but if I output them afterwards, they are not correct.

This is my input code:

Answer 1

#include <fstream>
#include <strtk.hpp>   // http://www.partow.net/programming/strtk

std::string filename("Resources/bones.out");

// assuming the file is text
std::fstream fs;
fs.open(filename.c_str(), std::ios::in);

if(fs.fail())  return false;   

const char *whitespace    = " \t\r\n\f";

std::string line;
std::vector<float> floats;
std::vector<std::string> strings;
float x = 0.0, y = 0.0, z = 0.0;
std::string xs, ys, zs;

// process each line in turn
while( std::getline(fs, line ) )
{
    // Removing beginning and ending whitespace
    // can prevent parsing problems from different line endings.
    // formerly accomplished with boost::algorithm::trim(line)

    strtk::remove_leading_trailing(whitespace, line);


    // strtk::parse combines multiple delimiters in these cases

    if( strtk::parse(line, whitespace, floats ) ) 
    {
         std::cout << "succeed" << std::endl;
         // floats contains all the values on the in as floats
    }

    if( strtk::parse(line, whitespace, strings) ) 
    {
         std::cout << "succeed" << std::endl;
         // strings contains all the values on the in line as strings
    }

    if( strtk::parse(line, whitespace, x, y, z) ) 
    {
         std::cout << "succeed" << std::endl;
         // x,y,z contain the float values.  parse fails if more than 3 floats are on the line
    }

    if( strtk::parse(line, whitespace, xs, ys, zs) ) 
    {
         std::cout << "succeed" << std::endl;
         // xs,ys,zs contain the strings.  parse fails if more than 3 strings are on the line
    }
}

This is how I would solve it. You can pick your way to parse the data.

Answer 2

I have worked with that before and something I would do is like the code below where you read your text file line by line and use getline and a string to put the twext into variables. You don't have to ue an array as it is limited to the elements but use a vector and that way you can add dynamically.

    string xs;
    string ys;
    string zs;
    ifstream infile;
    someArray[50];
    infile.open("some file.txt");

    if (!infile)
    {
        cout << "no good file failed! \n" << endl;
    }

    while (infile.good())
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < 49; ++i)
        {
            getline(infile, xs);
            //Saves the line in xs.
                infile >> p[i].xs;

            getline(infile, ys, ',');
            infile >> p[i].ys;
            getline(infile, zs, ',');
            infile >> p[i].zs;

        }
        //infile >> p.fromFloor; */



    }

    infile.close(); 
}