This is an old thread but its still at the top of search results, so I'm adding my solution using std::stringstream and a simple string replace method by Yves Baumes I found here.
The following example will read a file line by line, ignore comment lines starting with // and parse the other lines into a combination of strings, ints and doubles. Stringstream does the parsing, but expects fields to be delimited by whitespace, so I use stringreplace to turn commas into spaces first. It handles tabs ok, but doesn't deal with quoted strings.
Bad or missing input is simply ignored, which may or may not be good, depending on your circumstance.
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <fstream>
void StringReplace(std::string& str, const std::string& oldStr, const std::string& newStr)
// code by Yves Baumes
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1494399/how-do-i-search-find-and-replace-in-a-standard-string
{
size_t pos = 0;
while((pos = str.find(oldStr, pos)) != std::string::npos)
{
str.replace(pos, oldStr.length(), newStr);
pos += newStr.length();
}
}
void LoadCSV(std::string &filename) {
std::ifstream stream(filename);
std::string in_line;
std::string Field;
std::string Chan;
int ChanType;
double Scale;
int Import;
while (std::getline(stream, in_line)) {
StringReplace(in_line, ",", " ");
std::stringstream line(in_line);
line >> Field >> Chan >> ChanType >> Scale >> Import;
if (Field.substr(0,2)!="//") {
// do your stuff
// this is CBuilder code for demonstration, sorry
ShowMessage((String)Field.c_str() + "\n" + Chan.c_str() + "\n" + IntToStr(ChanType) + "\n" +FloatToStr(Scale) + "\n" +IntToStr(Import));
}
}
}