C++: Using ifstream with getline();

Question

Check this program

ifstream filein(\"Hey.txt\");
filein.getline(line,99);
cout<

        

Answer 1

According to the C++ reference (here) getline sets the ios::fail when count-1 characters have been extracted. You would have to call filein.clear(); in between the getline() calls.

Answer 2

As Kerrek SB said correctly There is 2 possibilities: 1) Second line is an empty line 2) there is no second line and all more than 1000 character is in one line, so second getline has nothing to get.

Answer 3

The idiomatic way to read lines from a stream is thus:

{
    std::ifstream filein("Hey.txt");

    for (std::string line; std::getline(filein, line); )
    {
        std::cout << line << std::endl;
    }
}

Note:

• No close(). C++ takes care of resource management for you when used idiomatically.

• Use the free std::getline, not the stream member function.

Answer 4

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main() 
{
ifstream in;
string lastLine1;
string lastLine2;
in.open("input.txt");
while(in.good()){
    getline(in,lastLine1);
    getline(in,lastLine2);
}
in.close();
if(lastLine2=="")
    cout<<lastLine1<<endl;
else
    cout<<lastLine2<<endl;
return 0;
}