Question

So this seems like such a simple problem but i am struggling with it. I have a big file that i want to just go through and put every char in the file into a char array. My problem is i dont know how to deal with the newlines and any whitespace. is there a way to just go through the file and grab all of the chars, skip over newlines, and put them in an array?

Yes, i have searched around on google but with no luck.

Answer 1

Here is how it would be trivially done in C. I am sure it can be done using the C++ interface as well, but the C library is part of C++ too.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

FILE *f = fopen ("filename", "r");
if (!f)
   error ...

char array [BIGENOUGH];
int index = 0;
while (!feof (f))
{
    char c = fgetc (f);
    if (!isspace (c))
        array [index++] = c;
}
fclose (f):