Comparing Strings to INTS

[Jetboy555]

Sample input:

2000 Georgia Tech 30 Virginia 20
1999 Virginia 20 Virginia tech

My Problem is in taking the input in correctly. I take the year in correctly, but i'm having trouble with the names because some of them are two strings long.

right now i have

input << year << Winner1 << Winner2 < Score << Loser1 < Loser2 << Score

where Winner1, Winner2, and Loser1, Loser2, are all strings. The problem is that because they are strings they reading the score if the second word doesn't exist.
I realize i need some kind if statement comparing my string , but i'm stuck
there.


Thanks for any help

[horace1]

a simple way is to use peek() to look at the next character in the input stream to see if it is a digit, if so you read an int otherwise a string - sucessive strings can be concatenated, e.g.

// reading int or string using peek() to look at next character

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    while(cin.good())
    {
        int num=0;
        string s="";
        if(isdigit(cin.peek()))                 // peek at next character
            {
            cin >> num;                           // numeric read an int
            cout << "number " << num << endl;
            }
         else
            {
            cin >> s;                             // not numeric read a string
            cout << "string " << s << endl;
            }
       }
}

you data gives
number 2000
string Georgia
string Tech
string 30
string Virginia
string 20
string 1999
string Virginia
string 20
string Virginia
string tech
string