I'm having a bit of a problem with extracting data from a simple .txt file with the getline command.
The txt file is very simple: a column of 400 numbers. I use a vector to store them with the following code:
int i = 0;
string line;
vector <double> vec;
while (getline(input, line))
{
vec.push_back(i);
N++;
input >> vec[i];
i++;
}
It correctly creates a vector of 400 elements but first line of txt file is ignored (I end up with vec[0] = 2nd line of txt file instead of 1st) and 399th element is 399 instead of the 400th line of txt file.
I tried several other ways to extract this data but it was unsuccessful.
Thank you for your help!
EDIT:
I have edited the code according to some of the remarks:
vector <double> vec;
string line;
double num;
while (getline(input, line))
{
input >> num;
vec.push_back(num);
}
Unfortunately, it still skips the first line of my text file.
EDIT 2 --> SOLUTION:
Thanks to all of your remarks, I realized that I was doing something wrong when using both getline and input >> num;
Here is how the problem was solved:
double num;
vector <double> vec;
while (input >> num)
{
vec.push_back(num);
}
You loose the first line due to reading from the file once more - here:
while (getline(input, line))
// ^^^^^^^ Here you read the first line
{
input >> num;
// ^^^^^^^^ Here you will read the second line
You told you want a vector of doubles - like:
std::vector<double> vec;
So you should use std::stod
to convert the line read by getline
into a double. Like:
while (std::getline(input, line))
{
// Convert the text line (i.e. string) to a floating point number (i.e. double)
double tmp;
try
{
tmp = stod(line);
}
catch(std::invalid_argument)
{
// Illegal input
break;
}
catch(std::out_of_range)
{
// Illegal input
break;
}
vec.push_back(tmp);
}
Don't do input >> num;
inside the loop.
If you really want to use input >> num;
then you shall not use getline
. That is - you can use either but not both.