need to parse in c++

For general purpose text-parsing you can use regular expressions via the the regex library.  It is very versatile although there are certain types of cases that require extra coding to work with (for example, making sure an arbitrary number of parenthesis are matched, so it would be difficult to parse complex mathematical expressions).  If you are using linux unix then the regexp library is probably already on your machine, or you can get a windows build at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617&package_id=57165

Since you are using VS6.0 your best bet is to use the string crt functions .. load the file into a buffer and parse it off.. :-) how much processing are you expecting in the parsing? vs6.0 does not have support for regex as suggested by Feldspar for linux.. however vs7.0 or .Net supports them.

you could use the traditional fopen, fread, fseek, strtok, strchr, strstr etc for this!!

please clarify your exact requirements, probably i can come up with a sample code.. :)

enjoy
pratap

the file is and xml file and looks something like this:
<article mdate="2002-10-03" key="tr/dec/SRC1997-018">
<editor>Paul R. McJones</editor>
<title>The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Project, and Politics, May 29, 1995.</title>
<journal>Digital System Research Center Report</journal>
<volume>SRC1997-018</volume>
<year>1997</year>
<ee>db/labs/dec/SRC1997-018.html</ee>
<ee>http://www.mcjones.org/System_R/SQL_Reunion_95/</ee>
<cdrom>decTR/src1997-018.pdf</cdrom>
</article>

<article mdate="2002-10-03" key="tr/gte/TR-0263-08-94-165">
<ee>db/labs/gte/TR-0263-08-94-165/html</ee>
<author>Frank Manola</author>
<title>An Evaluation of Object-Oriented DBMS Developments: 1994 Edition</title>
<journal>GTE Laboratories Incorporated</journal>
<volume>TR-0263-08-94-165</volume>
<month>August</month>
<year>1994</year>
<url>db/labs/gte/index.html#Tr</url>
<cdrom>GTE/src1997-018.pdf</cdrom>
</article>

not all the sections start with the article tag.  I need to extract was is in the title tag, for those that come from articles.

So my resutls from the top two entries will be:
The 1995 SQL Reunion: People, Project, and Politics, May 29, 1995.
An Evaluation of Object-Oriented DBMS Developments: 1994 Edition

I hope that helps

In C++, You can use fstream for copying the data to the buffer.Use STL string for parsing it has many functions which can make your work easy.fstream and string are located in namespace std.

Surya.