Eigen library --> initialize matrix with data from file or existing std::vector content (c++)

Question

My question is how to initialize an eigen Matrix, but NOT this way:

matrix << 1,0,1,0,
          1,0,1,0,
          1,0,1,0,
         


        

Answer 1

The following code works with files containing matrices of arbitrary size:

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

using namespace std;
using namespace Eigen;

#define MAXBUFSIZE  ((int) 1e6)

MatrixXd readMatrix(const char *filename)
    {
    int cols = 0, rows = 0;
    double buff[MAXBUFSIZE];

    // Read numbers from file into buffer.
    ifstream infile;
    infile.open(filename);
    while (! infile.eof())
        {
        string line;
        getline(infile, line);

        int temp_cols = 0;
        stringstream stream(line);
        while(! stream.eof())
            stream >> buff[cols*rows+temp_cols++];

        if (temp_cols == 0)
            continue;

        if (cols == 0)
            cols = temp_cols;

        rows++;
        }

    infile.close();

    rows--;

    // Populate matrix with numbers.
    MatrixXd result(rows,cols);
    for (int i = 0; i < rows; i++)
        for (int j = 0; j < cols; j++)
            result(i,j) = buff[ cols*i+j ];

    return result;
    };

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