I am attempting to write a program which can read in a text file, and store each word in it as an entry in a string type vector. I am sure that I am doing this very wrong, but it has been so long since I have tried to do this that I have forgotten how it is done. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Code:
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
vector<string> input;
ifstream readFile;
vector<string>::iterator it;
it = input.begin();
readFile.open("input.txt");
for (it; ; it++)
{
char cWord[20];
string word;
word = readFile.get(*cWord, 20, '\n');
if (!readFile.eof())
{
input.push_back(word);
}
else
break;
}
cout << "Vector Size is now %d" << input.size();
return 0;
}
#include <fstream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <iterator>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
vector<string> input;
ifstream readFile("input.txt");
copy(istream_iterator<string>(readFile), {}, back_inserter(input));
cout << "Vector Size is now " << input.size();
}
Or, shorter:
int main()
{
ifstream readFile("input.txt");
cout << "Vector Size is now " << vector<string>(istream_iterator<string>(readFile), {}).size();
}
I'm not going to explain, because there's about a zillion explanations on StackOverflow already :)