Programming

Well I'm back at this after finishing my taxes.

Per the first suggestion posted, I am now going to try to eliminate the part of the code that stores the entire input file in a vector of string.

This is the code that opens the input file and parses it into rows.

Code:

   // create an input stream and open the splitsInFile file
   ifstream splitsInput;
   splitsInput.open( splitsInFile.c_str() );

   // read innput file and store
   while(getline(splitsInput,newSplitsLine)) {
      // remove '\r' EOL chars
      newSplitsLine.erase (remove(newSplitsLine.begin(),newSplitsLine.end(),'\r') , newSplitsLine.end());
      // store row data in vector of string
      storeSplitsRows.push_back(newSplitsLine);
   }

The rest of the code directs a row of code into a stringstream, and then it is parsed into "cells" using a tab delimiter.

Code:

   stringstream colsRowStream;
   colsRowStream << storeSplitsRows[0];

   // parse header row into cells, tab delimiter
   while(getline(colsRowStream,rowCell,'\t')) {
      //stuff = rowCell;
   }

I could direct the string newSplitsLine into the string stream in the while loop, and continue with the rest as is, or I cold change the code to parse the string instead of the stringstream. I suppose I could also parse the ifstream from the input file directly into cells, but that would be more involved.

Is this what was meant by, "A function that loads from a stream, which your file-opening member could use too, instead of just one member which loads from a filename and nothing else." in the first reply post? If I just parse splitsInput, the stream from the input file, I would have to parse by tab for the cells, and then the end of line character to differentiate between rows. Can that be done on a stream with getline, or do I have to divert each row into some temp structure and then parse the temp structure into cells?

I am trying to lighten the code and remove redundant steps. Let me know if anyone wants me to post the whole src.

LMHmedchem