Input text file contains spaces?

[proggR]

This should probably be in the Other Language section but maybe its broader than just c++

I have a text file that looks something like this:

RPSRPRRPSSPRPRRPSPRPSPRPSSSP ...etc

I'm trying to read it in and asign the value to a character. Its for a game of rock paper scissors and each letter corresponds to a play. However for some reason when I run it the first character seems to be a space, the second is a block (like when you use the symbol font in WordPad) and not until the third does it get to a letter. Then after that it reads more garbage and after another two or three times I get the second letter. The file is a plain text file, not rtf or any other kind of file and I have no spaces in the file. I'm going to just create a function to validate the input before assigning it to my character variable but can anyone fathom what is happening? Also, any help with the validation would be appreciated but I expect I'll find something before I get a response.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Daniel0]

Where did the file come from in the first place? Can't you just discard and move on to the next item if the current one is an invalid value?

[proggR]

I just opened notepad and typed it. I think I'm just going to have a function that only assigns the value of get() to the variable if its one of the three values. I just have to figure out how to pass a file stream as an object to a function :S

[corbin]

The same way you pass any object to a function:

 

 

type function_name(class_name variable_name) {

 

}

 

 

Except I'm sure an fstream must be passed by reference (by a pointer), so it would look like this:

 

type function_name(fstream *fs) {

  fs->someMethod();

}

 

 

 

 

As for the three weird characters at the start of the file (it's from a file yes, or is it from cin or somewhere?), are you using UTF8 with BOM by any chance?