unable to recognise 'space' char in ifstream

[boccio]

hi,

I'm stuck with a quite stupid problem....

I'm trying to parse a txt file, and seems like I cannot recognise 'space' ( asc(32) char) .... concider this:

ifstream input("some_text.txt");
while (input >> * pszFile)
{
// ....
if (* pszFile == 32) // space char
// do smth...


all other chars are recognised correctly, only 'space' not.

what am I doing wrong??

thx for reading

[JMS]

>> what am I doing wrong..

what your doing wrong is using the >> operator to extract your characters. Using this it seemed to skip spaces. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature. But to get the results you need use a different method for sucking out the characters...

Here is code which worked for me..


char szFile = ' ';
int i = 0;

ifstream input("\\foo.txt", ios::binary);
while ( input.get(szFile) )
{
i++;
}


you could probable loose the ios::binary.... just put that in when I was experimenting with >>

[boccio]

yeah.... it makes sense....

thx a lot!

[Bob Davis]

The reason that the extraction operator >> does not return the ' ' character is that it is a delimiter for tokenizing the contents of the stream. It does not return the delimiters, and I'm not sure whether you can make it include them or not. I know you can do something like a

cin >> noskipws;

I'm not sure what this does, it's been a while since I've used it, but you may want to look it up in your C++ reference of choice.

[boccio]

thx for ********ing.....