Reading a formated text file into a two dimensional array

Hi,

How do I read a file into a two dimensional array? I have a space formated file that looks like this:

950 912828C4U ESMITH 94000.46 20040702
11 912828C50 ESMITH 1100.00 20040702
2200 912828RC5 ESMITH 220875.00 20040702

What I want to be able to do is read each each line into an array such as this:

string [100][5]

Once it is in the array I will format the output so that it looks like this:

OPE,950,912828C4U,ESMITH,94000.46,20040702,0,0,0,

I've been able to format the output to file using the following code (in this code the array values are predefined) :

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{

string test [2] [5] = {
{"820", "912828CYO", "FSMITH", "20040412", "8100.00"},
{"900", "912828CYO", "FSMITH", "20040412", "9000.00"},
};

ofstream file("f:/files/out.txt", ios:ut);

for (int row = 0; row < 2; row++)
{

file << "ope,";

for (int col = 0; col < 5; col++)
{
file << test[row][col] <<",";



}
file << "0,0,0" << endl;

}
return 0;

}


Basicly what I am attempting to do is read in a space delimeted file and output a comma delimeted file.

Can anyone give me any sugestions?

Personally I would just read through the file one character at a time and output it to a new file, replacing it with a comma if a space is found.

-KM-

Thanks for the reply. I've decided to drop the array completely and read the file in and out using the fcode below .

while(!fileIn.eof( ))
{

fileIn >> example >> test ;
fileOut << example << test;

}