Question

Working on a cross-platform project in C++, which must read input files in a very simple format:

MESSAGE_NAME "Message text"
ANOTHER_GOOD_MESSAGE "This is another message"

…

I wonder if somebody has or knows a library (a header file) for handling inputs that may be in Windows format or Linux format.

Answer 1

What’s wrong with #include <fstream>?

Of course, it’s conceivable that a Windows implementation would fail to
recognize Unix line endings (but I’ve yet to see one that doesn’t), or
that a Unix implementation has problems with the extra '\r'—my
usual solution is to read the files in binary mode, and strip out any
'\r' by hand. (I read into a class Line for this, which overloads
operator>> to call getline and then remove any trailing '\r'.)