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Question on printing out a line

Hello, I'm trying to print out one line at time from a file once it each reaches a part of my progam. This is what I have right now!

while(lexreturn != 41)
      {

       getline(inFile, line);
cout << "\n" << endl;
       cout << line << endl;
lexreturn = lex();
}

What is happenning is that it will reach this while loop while it's not end of file and I want it to print out a line at time. For example, if the file looked like this;

PROGRAM aProgramName();
number : Real;

The output would be this:

PROGRAM aProgramName(); <- this is what i want

PROGRAM [program] ,-This is not important for this problem
etc....

number : Real; <- this is what i want

etc... -This is not important for this problem

How would I go about doing this? I hope that I am making this clear!

Axter

while(getline(inFile, line))
{
cout << "\n" << endl;
cout << line << endl;
}

Axter

Just move your getline logic into the while condition.

Why are you using lex()??
What is this function suppose to do?

If it's an extra condition that you need, you can use both together.
Example:

while(lexreturn != 41 && getline(inFile, line))
{
cout << "\n" << endl;
cout << line << endl;
lexreturn = lex();
}

DancingFighterG

ASKER

For some reason getline is printing the line but it's clearing all the other data that I need after it. Is there another method that can be used to print a line of a file read to screen.

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DancingFighterG

ASKER

ok, well how my program works is that it's reading a file reading in each individual character. I'm putting these characters in a buffer. What I trying to do is after each \n print the source line. This is what I have:

void readInput()
{
      if(bufferA[0] = '\n')
      {
            getline(inFile, line);
            cout << line << endl;
      }
      bufferA[0] = inFile.peek();
      if(inFile.eof())
      {
            bufferA[0] = '\0';
      }

      current_character = bufferA[0];
      current_character_class = getCharacterClass(current_character);

}

I want the output to look like this:

VAR

VAR [var]

but right now it just prints out VAR and moves to the next line.