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Totally Immersed: C++ Classes and Object-Oriented Programming
operator (>>) stops at the first whitespace it encounters. (Whitespace includes blank spaces,
tabs, and so on.) The getline() function, on the other hand, reads from the file until an EOL
(end-of-line) character is detected, which is what you want when reading lines of text. When
reading single values without whitespace, the extraction operator is very useful. The following
code snippet reads a file containing numbers and outputs the numbers to the screen:
ifstream infile(“somefil.dat”);
while (!infile.eof()) {
int x;
infile >> x; // read number from file and assign it to x
cout