I am looking for an elegant way to parse a file to blocks and for each block create a new file , for example :
original file:
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
line 5
line 6
line 7
result:
first file:
line 1
second file:
line 2
line 3
third file:
line 4
line 5
line 6
fourth file:
line 7
thanks
You could use scoped_ptr
s to change the output file when the input line does not begin with whitespace:
std::ifstream in("/your/input/file");
boost::scoped_ptr<std::ofstream> out(NULL)
int out_serial = 0;
std::string line;
while(std::getline(in, line))
{
// test: first character non blank
if(! line.empty() && (line.at(0) != ' ' && line.at(0) != '\t'))
{
std::ostringstream new_output_file;
new_output_file << "/your/output/file/prefix_" << out_serial++;
out.reset(new std::ofstream(new_output_file.str()));
}
if(out.get() != NULL) (*out) << line << std::endl;
}