Grab special lines from a file

Hello

I have a file that contain different content, some lines inside that file looks like that :

Time : xx:xx:xx
Time : xx:xx:xx

So, I want to grab lines that start with "Time : " and put them inside a list<string> for later use. I am using windows so I don't know if the newline character is '\n' or '\r' also I don't want my grabed line contain any special character.

I have this code, but didn't work well because some special characters remain inside the string.

Code:

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string buf;
list<string> ls;

ifstream read("test.txt", ios_base::binary);

while(!read.eof())
{
      getline(read,buf,'\n');
      if(buf[0]=='T' && buf[1]=='i' && buf[2]=='m' && buf[3]=='e')
      {
            ls.push_back(buf);
      }
}

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1) What special characters are in the line ? You can use
the "erase-remove_if" method to get rid of them.

2) Try opening in text mode instead of binary mode.

3) If your line has less than 4 characters, you will access invalid
array indices. You are also looping thru the loop once too often.

You could write the loop:

Code:

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while (getline(read,buf))
{
  if (buf.substr(0,4) == "Time")
  {
      ls.push_back(buf);
  }
}

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