cin and unknown number of integers

Hi,

i dont usually write console programs, and i cant seem to find out how one parses an unknown number of arguments with cin.

the program receives an unknown amount of integers in stdin, and i need to parse them withouth hanging.
Unfortunately, stdin is a async. stream and blocks, if it doesnt find any integers left.

I cant use peek() or seek() either, as both are async, too, (which makes me wonder what their exact use is?).

help? :D



note:
shortened version, this forum decided to swallow my full blown post...:mad:

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Originally Posted by tuli

the program receives an unknown amount of integers in stdin, and i need to parse them withouth hanging.
Unfortunately, stdin is a async. stream and blocks, if it doesnt find any integers left.

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Is this supposed to be interactive input? If so, then the user can trigger EOF at the command prompt to get around the wait for more input, or you can just read the input as a string then parse the string. If not, i.e., of the input is being piped from elsewhere, then EOF will be reached anyway, so the wait for more input won't happen.

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Originally Posted by tuli

I cant use peek() or seek() either, as both are async, too, (which makes me wonder what their exact use is?).

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They can be useful when dealing with files.

thanks. No, the input is done with a file, but...


the file looks more like this:

<header>:x y z,....

where x,y,z are the integers.
It may as well be

<header>:x y
or
<header>:x y z a b


The input file may contain several such lines, so i split them by "\n" first, the process the individual lines, by parsing the header and then reading in the list of integers. So there is not end of file. :(

I solved this for now by using the extended string library of a FrameWork.
I`d still love to know what i can do in such a case, except for parsing the input char by char. :)

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Originally Posted by tuli

I`d still love to know what i can do in such a case, except for parsing the input char by char. :)

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you can use getline and stringstream, or something like this to avoid excessive copying:

Code:

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std::ifstream    file /* = ... */;
std::vector<int>  ints;

for( int val; file >> val; )
{
        ints.push_back( val );

        if( file.peek() == '\n' )
        {
                do_something_on( ints );
                ints.clear();
        }
}

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but there are also boost iostream, boost serialization, regex's, etc ... etc ... :)