Question

In the below code i would like to also ignore the character ” . But after adding that in i still get “Mr_Bishop” as my output.

I have the following code:

    ifstream getfile;
    getfile.open(file,ios::in);
        char data[256];
    char *line;
    //loop till end of file                   
    while(!getfile.eof())
    {
            //get data and store to variable data
            getfile.getline(data,256,'\n');

        line = strtok(data," ”");
        while(line != NULL)
        {
            cout << line << endl;
            line = strtok(NULL," ");
        }
    }//end of while loop

my file content :

hello 7 “Mr_Bishop”
hello 10 “0913823”

Basically all i want my output to be :

hello
7
Mr_Bishop
hello
10
0913823

With this code i only get :

hello
7
"Mr_Bishop"
hello
10
"0913823"

Thanks in advance! 🙂

I realise i have made an error in the inner loop missing out the quote. But now i receive the following output :

hello
7
Mr_Bishop
�
hello
10
0913823
�

any help? thanks! 🙂

Answer 1

Have a very careful look at your code:

    line = strtok(data," ”");

Notice how the quotes lean at different angles (well mine do, I guess hopefully your font shows the same thing). You have included only the closing double quote in your strtok() call. However, Your data file has:

hello 7 “Mr_Bishop”

which has two different kinds of quotes. Make sure you’re using all the right characters, whatever “right” is for your data.

UPDATE: Your data is probably UTF-8 encoded (that’s how you got those leaning double quotes in there) and you’re using strtok() which is completely unaware of UTF-8 encoding. So it’s probably doing the wrong thing, splitting up the multibyte UTF-8 characters, and leaving you with rubbish at the end of the line.