C++ Problem

[Krisbot]

I'm writing a program to read data from a file and then store the results in variables for later calculations, and save the iresults to an outfile. The program reads in the name of a state, that states electoral votes, and the number of votes each candidate got in the 2000 election. An examlpe of the data:

State Elec Vote Gore Bush Nader Buchanan
Alabama 9 695602 944409 18349 6364
Alaska 3 79004 167398 28747 5192

Opening and reading from a file and saving and closing the data isn't a problem, but I'm having a hard time setting up the loop to read in all the data. I know the .getline function is what I should more than likely use, but i'm having problems with the syntax. Also, should a seperate loop be setup to read the first line so it doesn't store junk in the variables? Any help would greatly be welcome. Thanks.

[daveyp225]

Dont use getline..Use a while loop for the inputs into a 2dim array.

#include  fstream.h    // put carrots on these  *
#include  iostream.h   // put carrots on these  *
#include  apstring.h    // put carrots on these  *

void main(){

	long int states[50][5];
	apstring state_name[50];
	int x = 0;

	ifstream infile;
	infile.open("c:\states.txt");

while ( !infile.fail()  &&  x < 50 )
{
	infile >> state_name[x]; // state name
	infile >> states[x][0]; // elec votes
	infile >> states[x][1]; // gore
	infile >> states[x][2]; // bush
	infile >> states[x][3]; // nader
	infile >> states[x][4]; // buchchanan

	x++;
}

x = 0;

while (x <= 49)
{
	cout << state_name[x] << "  ";
	cout << states[x][0] << "  ";
	cout << states[x][1] << "  ";
	cout << states[x][2] << "  ";
	cout << states[x][3] << "  ";
	cout << states[x][4] << "  " << endl;
	++x;


}

}

hey.. sorry if I did yer hw for ya, but I needed some refresh on the subject!

edit: To skip the first line of strings, just do 7 CINs..

Dave