File I/O -- c++

[limmies1]

I have a file that has the following data:

a12 (where a1 is supposed to be a variable called inclass and 2 means the number of records in the file)
andrew1234567abcdefgh
bingoa7654321asdasahd

and a
struct personal {
char name[6];
char number[7];
char instring[8];
};

how should i go about reading the data into the struct using c++ statements?

[jim mcnamara]

It depends on the data in the file.

If the data is char WITHOUT null-terminated strings

FILE *fptr;
BOOL ok;
fptr = fopen("myfile.txt")
ok = 0;
while(1)
{
   ok = (fgets( personal.name, 6, fptr ) == NULL);
   if (ok) 
   {
       break;
    }
   ok= (fgets(personal.number,7,fptr) == NULL);
   
   ok = (fgets(personal.instring,8,fptr) == NULL)
   // assume that all reocrds have all fields
   // otherwise you gotta check ok and break
}

[limmies1]

but what if i got the '\n' to deal with?