working with strings

[eduard77]

I have a string that i read from a file with the next code:

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
 
int main(int argc, char **argv){
 
    ifstream ifs("exercise.txt");
    if (!ifs.bad())
    {
        // u try to see if it reads from the file
        cout << ifs.rdbuf();
 
        ifs.close();
		cin.get();
    }
}

I have to find now the shortest and the longest word from the sentence.
I just don't know how to access the different words of the sentance

[hanst99]

You'd have to tokenize the input (basically, split up the string into words and put each of the words into a string array) and then check each word for it's length. After you have the words, finding the shortest or longest string is trivial, tokenizing might be another story. I don't remember there being a standard tokenizer for std::string, so you'd have to write one yourself (or use one of someone else).

[Crutoy]

you are gonna need to read a line at the time and then loop thru each line and break it up into each separate word and just do length comparison on them.