Read from txt

[michaelscott88]

What is the easiest way to read the first char from a txt? I figured out an extremely over complicated way that looks like a prime example of inefficient programming but was hoping there was a better way. I had an if statement inside the while(getline(x.txt, y)). Any help or advice would be great thanks!

[kbw]

Just open the file and read the first character.

    std::ifstream is("stuff.txt");

    char ch;
    is >> ch;

[JLBorges]

You might want to add std::noskipws.

is >> std::noskipws >> ch ;

Without it, you would read the first non-whitespace character.