Reading text files and storing contents into a List C++?

Hi i want to read in a text file and store the contents into a list in C++. I am able to read in the file using fstream.





I have declared a list of type string however the contents of the text file has employee ID number which is of type int. Is is appropriate to store the employees into a list of type string?





How could i modify this code so i can store the contents into the "list "of employees?





Thanks.





Here is my attempted code:





#include %26lt;iostream%26gt;


#include %26lt;list%26gt;


#include %26lt;fstream%26gt;


#include %26lt;string%26gt;





using namespace std;





int main ()


{


int iQuit = 0;





list%26lt;string%26gt; employees;


cout %26lt;%26lt; "test";


return 0;





string str;


ifstream myFile("Employees.txt");





if(! myFile)


{


cout %26lt;%26lt; "Error opening the file" %26lt;%26lt;endl;


return -1;


}





while(! myFile.eof())


{


getline(myFile, str);


cout %26lt;%26lt; str %26lt;%26lt; endl;


}


myFile.close();


cin %26gt;%26gt; iQuit;


return 0;





}

Reading text files and storing contents into a List C++?
Unless you are going to perform some kind of math on the employee numbers, I don't see what the problem is representing them strings. You could save some small amount of space by storing them as integers but I doubt that is an issue here.





As for storing the contents of the lists just use the list push_back() method like so:





while (! myFile.eof())


{


getline(myFile, str);


cout %26lt;%26lt; str %26lt;%26lt; endl;


employees.push_back(str);


}





If you really do want to use integers basically all you need to do is to change to a list%26lt;int%26gt; for employees and convert the string to an int using atoi or a stringstream.

gerbera