istream >> simple question

[Aleksandr Dubinskiy]

I am curious if there is good way to read in strings one word (an
alphanumeric sequence of characters) at a time from a file using the >>
operator. I don't want to read one character at a time or use scanf.

Alex

[John Harrison]

Re: istream >> simple question


"Aleksandr Dubinskiy" <dubinskiy.1@os u.edu> wrote in message
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> I am curious if there is good way to read in strings one word (an
> alphanumeric sequence of characters) at a time from a file using the >>
> operator. I don't want to read one character at a time or use scanf.
>
> Alex
>[/color]

Simple answer

string word;
file >> word;

john