Hi,

I am studying C++ atm but I'm a tad stuck on a problem I have:

I am doing a project which requires me to take a strings of varying length from a text file, cut them up and perform various validation checks on them.

For example;

12436jimmylaboffablahblah

would have to be chopped into

12436 | jimmy la boffa | blah blah

I have the necessary structures to store the data, all the functions I need to perform the tests but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to take the string and chop it up into various pieces. :/

I have looked through all the books I have but I have had no luck in finding a potential solution.

I was experimenting with using commands such as :

fin.getline(temp, MAX); //gets the string
drec.number = temp[5];
drec.name = temp[20];
etc...

but I'm pretty sure that this is not correct. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

James

Try this

struct Data
{
char number[5];
char name[13];
char etc[80]; // whatever the size is
} temp;

getline ((char*) &temp, sizeof (Data));

cout << temp.number << " | " << temp.name << " | " << endl;

what are the validation checks? and what is the rule for determining the string? How will you know when one string ends and another begins? by size? or do you have a list of valid entries?

Once you get the rules of the splitting
it will be far more easier... =)