From: Philip K. Warren <pkw@duke.edu>
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  Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 17:30:37 -0500

Re: getLine()????????

I believe the proper syntax for getline is:

getline(input, myLine)

If input is an ifstream and myLine is a string.  So your loop would look
like:

while(getline(input, myLine))
{
	// do something with myLine
}

Hope this helps.

-- Philip

Carl Robert Knerr wrote:
> 
> When trying to use "while(input.getLine())", we had to use the following
> syntax to get it to compile:
> 
> while(input.getline(myLine.c_str(),100,'\n'))
> 
> The 100 is the maximum numbers of characters allowed on that line.  I
> think there has to be an easier way to do this, but I can't figure it out
> at all.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.