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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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]

glad I was able to help.

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[@DevLogCentral]

Super helpful video. Really helped me understand this! Thank you!!

[@BeginningProgrammer]

Glad it helped.

[@Shmevin]

very helpful thank you

[@and_then_I_whispered]

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]

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[@and_then_I_whispered]

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[@BeginningProgrammer]

you're welcome. appreciate the feedback.

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[@NMPVevoOfficial]

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]

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.

[@marcusp.7512]

In the era of chatgpt your video is the only thing giving me clarity for my final school project, you the GOAT thank you

[@user-uh2lf1hn8d]

i have problem .pls help, when i want to pars int and double valus in console i get 0....

[@BeginningProgrammer]

did you check out the gist look at the age and gpa gist.github.com/fernandozamoraj/aa35555a56884242041495cbb654dbe8

[@rhettarded]

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]

read the line but don't store it in memory. Just do a getline before the loop begins

[@rhettarded]

@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]

@@rhettarded Have you seen this other video th-cam.com/video/WzSlk3WWbPM/w-d-xo.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

[@drgbllgt]

Could you make a video on how to do this with sscanf ?

[@BeginningProgrammer]

possibly

[@danielachim6761]

how i do it for multiple csv files like 10-20 ? and like put it in one place all ?

[@yss2685]

How can we search a student record and bring out everything about that particular structure from the vector container?

[@BeginningProgrammer]

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]

@@BeginningProgrammer Thank you.

[@josediaz8862]

How would you access the values inside of the vector

[@BeginningProgrammer]

like a normal array v[i]

[@jrippee05]

Sir, where is the data set for the example?

[@BeginningProgrammer]

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.

[@noshkren]

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]

Maybe you haven't put the "getline" function inside of a loop, like ' while (getline(...)) {...} '

[@noshkren]

@@drgbllgt I had a corrupt .csv file. I actually looked at the code for a while when in reality, it was just the file.

[@marc-andrebrun8942]

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]

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]

@@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.

[@campustech2617]

How parse dcm file

[@BeginningProgrammer]

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.

[@danniculescu9279]

If I wouldn't know what a csv file is I wouldn't be here, would I? Stop wasting people's time!