Subj : Re: directly inputting numbers
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : maeder@glue.ch (Thomas Maeder [TeamB])
Date : Fri Jul 18 2003 08:56 pm

"Michael Fruchter" <mfruchtr@yahoo.com> writes:

> How will the program know where the number ends? I'm dealing
> with a text that has many numbers that are not delimited (e.g. by spaces)
> but are of fixed width. I was hoping that it's 
> possible to specify the amount of characters that you want to
> read into your integer (analogous to fgets with strings). 

I didn't understand that part of your question.

Read <width> characters using the read member function of ifstream into a
character array. Then create a std::istringstream or a std::istrstream over
that array and use it to extract the number.

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