Just a question

[apophyus]

Hi all, im working on a little program that reads a list of basketball teams from a file and stores the data in a struct. Most of the teams only have one name and the data is stored in the struct perfectly. However, i am wondering what the best way to read in the data for teams that have a first AND a last name.
An example would be "1 Kansas 29-0 1" position, name, wins/losses, and previous position in the standings specifically. The program has a fit if the file looks like this however "3 Iowa State 10-19 -" the program NEEDS to read from a file that contains both of these lines.

Here is a sample of my read file code located in the class:
for (int i = 0; d != -1; i++)
{
d = inFile.peek();
inFile >> T[i].position >> T[i].name;
if (d > 49)
{
inFile >> c;
T[i].name += c;
}
inFile >> T[i].wins >> temp >> T[i].losses >> T[i].votes >> T[i].prev;
if (d == -1)
break;

[keskiverto]

Such lack of systematic format is inconvenient. CSV is an example of format(s) that make parsing easier.

However, you have "word-x word[s] word-y word-z" on a line. You could read every word into a container (or just std::string). Then you can look at the size of the container (or count whitespaces in string) to do something appropriate for each word.

[apophyus]

thanks very much for the advice, ill try both and see which one works better for my particular program