How to Parse a CSV File in C++
In this short video I will show you how to parse a CSV file using C++. We will then take the data and store it as a record in a vector container.
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I dont usually comment, but this video is exactly what I need for one of my assignments, I was so lost with the implementation of vectors and you helped me on the dot.
Great video, exactly what I needed plus some!
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Hey man thanks for your help. You just opened a whole new world for me and assisted with the first part of a final project.
@BeginningProgrammer
2 жыл бұрын
glad I was able to help.
Super helpful video. Really helped me understand this! Thank you!!
@BeginningProgrammer
Жыл бұрын
Glad it helped.
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Thank you , great video!
thanks, directed me in the right direction to work on an assignment
Very helpful video!
very helpful thank you
amazing! thank you!
@BeginningProgrammer
2 жыл бұрын
you're welcome. appreciate the feedback.
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Dude, you're telling me that getline function takes an extra (until)argument😂? I did my University project few days ago. I sorted every line using different characters for diff info and fetched everything separately. I'm feeling like an idiot right now🤓.
@BeginningProgrammer
2 жыл бұрын
count it as win... you learned something new. This journey is like that.
@and_then_I_whispered
2 жыл бұрын
@@BeginningProgrammer Thanks a lot man:)
Thank you very much for the video.! What about if we want to do some calculations with the data that are inside the file?
@BeginningProgrammer
Жыл бұрын
you can stored the data in a data structure and do whatever you would normally do with it. You can look through it, query it, etc.
thank you and i from in vietnam
how i do it for multiple csv files like 10-20 ? and like put it in one place all ?
S-O man, u'r a monster
How can I ignore the first line of the file? Say, in a csv file, the first line is usually the titles (Name, Age, Birthday) and wanted to skip it and have it read to the 2nd line, that contains the values?
@BeginningProgrammer
2 жыл бұрын
read the line but don't store it in memory. Just do a getline before the loop begins
@rhettarded
2 жыл бұрын
@Code Morsels thank you. Is there a way to put the getline inside the while in another loop? Because my file is a csv that has date in a string, and a bunch of float in another columns. I have a stock data: date (string), (then all floats) open, high, low, adjust close, volume, percent change. Wondering if there is a shortcut instead of using atof each time
@BeginningProgrammer
2 жыл бұрын
@@rhettarded Have you seen this other video kzread.info/dash/bejne/ia6Hzs1sh7rIgLA.html. It has reusable way to parsing the file and you can just reuse the same code over and over. You can extract whatever columns you want out of it. For the dates you may need to add another function called getDate. And the code is at gist.github.com/fernandozamoraj/22faf8e4b2ee45cb8e0f7dc5110319e7
Could you make a video on how to do this with sscanf ?
@BeginningProgrammer
2 жыл бұрын
possibly
i have problem .pls help, when i want to pars int and double valus in console i get 0....
@BeginningProgrammer
Жыл бұрын
did you check out the gist look at the age and gpa gist.github.com/fernandozamoraj/aa35555a56884242041495cbb654dbe8
How can we search a student record and bring out everything about that particular structure from the vector container?
@BeginningProgrammer
2 жыл бұрын
the most straight forward way is to simply iterate over the vector sequentially and find the item by comparing the attribute. Or you can use the vector's find_first_of www.cplusplus.com/reference/algorithm/find_first_of/. Vector's are not very good for searching. A better option may be a map, if you are mapping by the id.
@yss2685
2 жыл бұрын
@@BeginningProgrammer Thank you.
How would you access the values inside of the vector
@BeginningProgrammer
Жыл бұрын
like a normal array v[i]
When I was using the code, it only reads in the first line of the .csv file. Would you know why this would be happening?
@drgbllgt
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe you haven't put the "getline" function inside of a loop, like ' while (getline(...)) {...} '
@noshkren
2 жыл бұрын
@@drgbllgt I had a corrupt .csv file. I actually looked at the code for a while when in reality, it was just the file.
In the era of chatgpt your video is the only thing giving me clarity for my final school project, you the GOAT thank you
You are literally the only person that explains code and is not indian on youtube
Sir, where is the data set for the example?
@BeginningProgrammer
Жыл бұрын
you are the first person to ask for it. I didn't realize it was not there. I will post it when I get a chance.
How parse dcm file
@BeginningProgrammer
Жыл бұрын
So.. data files fall into three broad categories flat files, mark up files, markdown which in a way it's actually a mark up. The other category is binary format. Binary formats can be open standard like PDF. I'm not very familiar with the DCM standard and have not ever seen the inside of one. But with most complex files you normally need an API. The API can provide the data contained in the file. Or sometimes you can create your own API based on the standard. Non flat files are way more complex than flat files though and beyond the scope of this tutorial.
i think C++ is not meant for this kind of job: in pure C, using strtok() or fscanf() it's more concise & cristal clear; this C++ code here is messy as hell;
@BeginningProgrammer
8 ай бұрын
Hi Marc. You may be right. However, there are times when other individuals such as students need to use C++ and strtok is not an option on the table.
@marc-andrebrun8942
8 ай бұрын
@@BeginningProgrammer poor student if they must learn that way of programming! as an old tinkerer, i'm focused on pure C or on scheme (racket); this 2 languages are on opposite edge of programming paradigms and i feel it's worth to use both; it's a mutual improvement.
If I wouldn't know what a csv file is I wouldn't be here, would I? Stop wasting people's time!