#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include<fstream>
int main() {
std::string line, word;
std::ifstream inFile("input.txt");
//create/use a std::vector instead of builit in array
std::vector<std::vector<std::string>> vec;
if(inFile)
{
while(getline(inFile, line, '\n'))
{
//create a temporary vector that will contain all the columns
std::vector<std::string> tempVec;
std::istringstream ss(line);
//read word by word
while(ss >> word)
{
//std::cout<<"word:"<<word<<std::endl;
//add the word to the temporary vector
tempVec.push_back(word);
}
//now all the words from the current line has been added to the temporary vector
vec.emplace_back(tempVec);
}
}
else
{
std::cout<<"file cannot be opened"<<std::endl;
}
inFile.close();
//lets check out the elements of the 2D vector so the we can confirm if it contains all the right elements(rows and columns)
for(std::vector<std::string> &newvec: vec)
{
for(const std::string &elem: newvec)
{
std::cout<<elem<<" ";
}
std::cout<<std::endl;
}
/*another way to print out the elements of the 2D vector would be as below
for(int row = 0; row < vec.size(); ++row)
{
for(int col = 0; col < vec.at(row).size(); ++col)
{
std::cout<<vec.at(row).at(col)<<" ";
}
std::cout<<std::endl;
}
*/
return 0;
}
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