Question

I have a file and I need to loop through it assigning an int foo, string type, 64/128 bit long. How would I use a stream to parse these lines into the following variables – I want to stick with the stream syntax ( ifs >> foo >> type ) but in this case type would end up being the rest of the line after the 0/52 … and at that point I’d just get a char* and use strtoull and such so why use the stream in the first place… I’m hoping for readable code without horrid performance over char strings / strtok / strtoull

//input file:
0ULL'04001C0180000000000000000EE317BC'
52L'04001C0180000000'
//ouput:
//0 ULL 0x04001C0180000000 0x000000000EE317BC
//52 L 0x04001C0180000000

  ifstream ifs("input.data");
  int foo;
  string type;
  unsigned long long ull[2];

Answer 1

This is a rather trivial task for a more sophisticated parser such as boost.spirit.

To solve this using just the standard C++ streams you would need to

• a) treat ' as whitespace and
• b) take an extra pass over the string “04001C0180000000000000000EE317BC” which has no separators between the values.

Borrowing Jerry Coffin’s sample facet code,

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <locale>
#include <vector>
#include <sstream>
#include <iomanip>
struct tick_is_space : std::ctype<char> {
    tick_is_space() : std::ctype<char>(get_table()) {}
    static std::ctype_base::mask const* get_table()
    {
        static std::vector<std::ctype_base::mask>
               rc(table_size, std::ctype_base::mask());
        rc['\n'] = std::ctype_base::space;
        rc['\''] = std::ctype_base::space;
        return &rc[0];
    }
};

int main()
{
    std::ifstream ifs("input.data");
    ifs.imbue(std::locale(std::locale(), new tick_is_space()));
    int foo;
    std::string type, ullstr;
    while( ifs >> foo >> type >> ullstr)
    {
        std::vector<unsigned long long> ull;
        while(ullstr.size() >= 16) // sizeof(unsigned long long)*2
        {
            std::istringstream is(ullstr.substr(0, 16));
            unsigned long long tmp;
            is >> std::hex >> tmp;
            ull.push_back(tmp);
            ullstr.erase(0, 16);
        }
        std::cout << std::dec << foo << " " << type << " "
                  << std::hex << std::showbase;
        for(size_t p=0; p<ull.size(); ++p)
            std::cout << std::setw(16) << std::setfill('0') << ull[p] << ' ';
        std::cout << '\n';
    }
}

test: https://ideone.com/lRBTq