Question

I have looked at various methods ranging from string.erase/ ispunct etc. and I cant simply get it working for my code.

My code is as follows:

ifstream infilei("test.txt")

**Second part of code......**

while ( !infilei.eof() )
{
    string wordlist;
    infilei >> wordlist;
    inputlist.push_back(wordlist);
}

The text.txt contains commas, single quotation, double quotations etc. and I need to remove them.

Where infilei >> wordlist; is shown, I have tried to use a if statement to remove strings with ‘”‘ etc. but it still does not remove single or double quotation. Is there another way or can I set an string.erase for above a certain ascii range? And is the a way to also send string to lower case during push_back?

Thank you

Answer 1

You should write the if statement like so if(str[i]=='\"' or str[i]=='\'') and as for the lowercase this should do it:

std::transform(str.begin(), str.end(), str.begin(), ::tolower);