DM> No, you don't need to create your own class.  Just have a friend to
DM> is the overloaded operator>>.
DM>  TM> iostream &operator>>(iostream &ias, Person &aPerson)
DM>  TM>                 ...
DM>  TM> }
DM> There ya go - that's all that's needed.
DM> If it comes in from a string, a file, a modem, whatever, this will r
DM> strings.  However, his example was much more complicated than this,
DM> some parsing of quotes and commas.
Which is exactly why I suggested creating a class.
Thomas
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