Checking ignore() for values

Question

When you use ignore() in C++, is there a way to check those values that were ignored? I basically am reading some # of chars and want to know if I ignored normal characters in the text, or if I got the newline character first. Thanks.

Answer 1

I don't believe so - you'd have to "roll your own".

In other words, I think you'd have to write some code that read from the stream using get(), and then add some logic for keeping what you need and ignoring the rest (whilst checking to see what you're ignoring).