"bearophile" <bearophileh...@lycos.com> writes: > Jerry: > >> If I do >> >> f.readf("%s %s", &l, &i); >> >> it fails if the whitespace is a tab. > > In you can use byLine, followed by a split, and then assignment of the pieces, > followed by to!int where necessary.
I actually can't use byLine in this instance. I'm really wanting the %s behavior of scanf().