I have a file in below format
mon 01/01/1000(TAB)hi hello(TAB)how r you
Is there any way to read the text in such a way to use '\t' alone as delimiter (and not space)?
So sample output can be,
mon 01/01/1000
hi hello
how r you
I couldn't use fscanf(), since it reads till the first space only.
Using only standard library facilities:
#include <sstream> #include <fstream> #include <string> #include <vector> std::ifstream file("file.txt"); std::string line; std::vector<std::string> tokens; while(std::getline(file, line)) { // '\n' is the default delimiter std::istringstream iss(line); std::string token; while(std::getline(iss, token, '\t')) // but we can specify a different one tokens.push_back(token); } You can get some more ideas here: How do I tokenize a string in C++?
from boost :
#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp> std::vector<std::string> strs; boost::split(strs, "string to split", boost::is_any_of("\t")); you can specify any delimiter in there.
