C/C++

This minimal example show your how to read & parse a tab-separated values (TSV) file in C++. We use boost::algorithm::split to split each line into its tab-separated components.

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>

using namespace std;
using namespace boost::algorithm;

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    ifstream fin("test.tsv");
    string line;
    while (getline(fin, line)) {
        // Split line into tab-separated parts
        vector<string> parts;
        split(parts, line, boost::is_any_of("\t"));
        // TODO Your code goes here!
        cout << "First of " << parts.size() << " elements: " << parts[0] << endl;
    }
    fin.close();
}

This minimal example reads a file line-by-line using std::getline and prints out each line on stdout.

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

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    ifstream fin("test.tsv");
    string line;
    while (getline(fin, line)) {
        // TODO Your code goes here. This is just an example!
        cout << line << endl;
    }
    fin.close();
}

In our previous post How to gzip-compress on-the-fly in C++ using boost::iostreams we showed how to create a gzip-compressing output stream using the boost::iostreams library.

This example shows how to control the compression rate of gzip_compressor:

Instead of constructing boost::iostreams::gzip_compressor() without arguments, use boost::iostreams::gzip_params(level) as the argument, where level (1..9) represents the compression level with 9 representing the highest compression level and 1 representing the lowest compression level. Higher levels of compression lead to reduced filesizes but are slower (i.e. consume more CPU time) during compression.

If filesize matters to you, I recommend choosing level 9 since compression even with the high level is extremely fast on modern computers.

Full example:

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <boost/iostreams/filtering_streambuf.hpp>
#include <boost/iostreams/copy.hpp>
#include <boost/iostreams/filter/gzip.hpp>
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    if(argc < 2) {
        cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " <output .gz file>" << endl;
    }
    //Read filename from the first command line argument
    ofstream file(argv[1], ios_base::out | ios_base::binary);
    boost::iostreams::filtering_streambuf<boost::iostreams::output> outbuf;
    outbuf.push(boost::iostreams::gzip_compressor(
        boost::iostreams::gzip_params(9)
    ));
    outbuf.push(file);
    //Convert streambuf to ostream
    ostream out(&outbuf);
    //Write some test data
    out << "This is a test text!\n";
    //Cleanup
    boost::iostreams::close(outbuf); // Don't forget this!
    file.close();
}

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0)
find_package(Boost 1.36.0 COMPONENTS iostreams)

include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS})
add_executable(iostreams-gz-compress iostreams-gz-compress.cpp)
target_link_libraries(iostreams-gz-compress ${Boost_LIBRARIES})

Checking if an element exists in PugiXML is simple: Just call bool(element) or use the element directly inside an if clause:

// Example on using bool(element)
cout << "<root-element> exists: " << std::boolalpha
     << bool(doc.child("root-element")) << endl;
cout << "<not-root-element> exists: " << std::boolalpha
     << bool(doc.child("not-root-element")) << endl;

// Example on using the element directly inside an if clause
if(doc.child("root-element")) {
    cout << "Yes, <root-element> exists!" << endl;
}

Full example:

#include <iostream>
#include <pugixml.hpp>
using namespace std;
using namespace pugi;

int main() {
    xml_document doc;
    xml_parse_result result = doc.load_file("test.xml");

    // Example on using bool(element)
    cout << "<root-element> exists: " << std::boolalpha
         << bool(doc.child("root-element")) << endl;
    cout << "<not-root-element> exists: " << std::boolalpha
         << bool(doc.child("not-root-element")) << endl;

    // Example on using the element directly inside an if clause
    if(doc.child("root-element")) {
        cout << "Yes, <root-element> exists!" << endl;
    }
}

add_executable(pugixml-example pugixml-example.cpp)
target_link_libraries(pugixml-example pugixml)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root-element>Test text</root-element>

Compile using

cmake .
make