From: "Geo" 

"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:4193fdf1{at}w3.nls.net...

std::ifstream is ( "MyFileName" ) ; std::string sbuf ;
while ( is.good )
{
   is.getline ( sbuf ) ;
   rows.push_back ( LogFileRow ( sBuf )) ;
}

But it's probably worth considering which elements you want to store and
what a natural way to store them is, for instance there's no point in
storing times or IP addresses as strings, convert them in LogFileRow.

I'm guessing some of the stuff above looks a bit odd...

Paul

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I don't know buffers yet so here is how I was bringing in the file

char filline[256], ch;

 while ((ch=infile.peek()) != EOF)
 {
  infile.getline(filline, 256, '\n');
  cout << filline;
 }

I then need some way to go thru the rows (as I read them in) which looks like this:

SPAM 11 Nov 2004 00:08:06.429 H 08082 57877 66.214.143.78 sheldon{at}accel.net
thorn{at}nls.net Content scan failure - see http://www.nls.net/bounced.htm
, message quality is 2147483648, quality mask is 0

and put them into some sort of a spreadsheet like structure so I can
process them as stats. Typically I would bring them into a string array
where rows were the whole line and colums were like

classification
day
month
year
time
operation
message number
ipaddress
fromaddress
toaddress
cause
blah blah

and then I can run totals and sort by those totals for each column.

you know.. now that I'm thinking about it this would be a whole lot simpler
if I just dumped the logs into SQLserver and did this in SQL.. 
But then I wouldn't be learning file access and arrays in C++...

Ok so I'm open to suggestions, how would you do this if you were a C++ newbie?

Geo.

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