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    read string from the file

    I have an example text file that contains:

    ***xyz text********
    ***********<td>temperatura: </td><td class="data">19.8 &deg;C</td>
    ***xyz text********
    ***********

    How can i extract the number 19.8 from that file?

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    Re: read string from the file

    One approach is to use a HTML parser. Another approach is to use a regular expression. Depending on the data, for all we know you could just search for " &deg;C" then extract the text just before it.
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    Re: read string from the file

    One way using the class string could be
    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <string>
    #include <fstream>
    using namespace std;
    
    const string fname = "tdata.txt";
    
    int main()
    {
    ifstream ifs(fname.c_str());
    
    	if (!ifs.is_open()) {
    		cout << "cannot open input file " << fname << endl;
    		return 1;
    	}
    
    string line;
    
    	while (getline(ifs, line)) {
    		size_t deg = line.find("&deg");
    		size_t st = (deg != string::npos) ? line.rfind(">", deg) : string::npos;
    
    		if (deg != string::npos && st != string::npos)
    			cout << line.substr(st = line.find_first_not_of(" ", st + 1), line.find_last_not_of(" ", deg - 1) - st + 1) << endl;
    
    	}
    	return 0;
    }
    For the given text, this will display 19.8
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    Re: read string from the file

    thanx for the code.

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