C++ read file help?

i want my program to read a .dat file containing characters arranged like below:





A


B


C


B


A


B


A


B


C





how do i let my program know that it should take a value, then skip the whitespace, then take the value after the whitespace until end of file? I was give some codings that look like this





infile %26gt;%26gt; temp %26gt;%26gt; ws; //whats temp? a char?

C++ read file help?
I'll assume you have included %26lt;iostream%26gt;, and ifstream infile.





Actually, the easier way to do it is...





char temp;





while (infile.peek() %26amp;%26amp; !infile.eof()){


infile %26gt;%26gt; temp;


}





Anyway, this is just one way to do it. I like to use peek() to know the eof is reached.