How can I read CSV file in to vector in C++

Question

I'm doing the project that convert the python code to C++, for better performance. That python project name is Adcvanced EAST, for now, I got the input data for nms function, in .csv file like this:

"[ 5.9358170e-04  5.2773970e-01  5.0061589e-01 -1.3098677e+00
 -2.7747922e+00  1.5079222e+00 -3.4586751e+00]","[ 3.8175487e-05  6.3440394e-01  7.0218205e-01 -1.5393494e+00
 -5.1545496e+00  4.2795391e+00 -3.4941311e+00]","[ 4.6003381e-05  5.9677261e-01  6.6983813e-01 -1.6515008e+00
 -5.1606908e+00  5.2009044e+00 -3.0518508e+00]","[ 5.5172237e-05  5.8421570e-01  5.9929764e-01 -1.8425952e+00
 -5.2444854e+00  4.5013981e+00 -2.7876694e+00]","[ 5.2929961e-05  5.4777789e-01  6.4851379e-01 -1.3151239e+00
 -5.1559062e+00  5.2229333e+00 -2.4008298e+00]","[ 8.0250458e-05  6.1284608e-01  6.1014801e-01 -1.8556541e+00
 -5.0002270e+00  5.2796564e+00 -2.2154367e+00]","[ 8.1256607e-05  6.1321974e-01  5.9887391e-01 -2.2241254e+00
 -4.7920742e+00  5.4237065e+00 -2.2534993e+00]

one unit is 7 numbers, but a '\n' after first four numbers, I wanna read this csv file into my C++ project, so that I can do the math work in C++, make it more fast.

using namespace std;

void read_csv(const string &filename)
{
//File pointer
fstream fin;
//open an existing file
fin.open(filename, ios::in);

vector<vector<vector<double>>> predict;

string line;
while (getline(fin, line))
{
    std::istringstream sin(line);
    vector<double> preds;
    double pred;
    while (getline(sin, pred, ']'))
    {
        preds.push_back(preds);
    }

}

}

For now...my code emmmmmm not working ofc, I'm totally have no idea with this... please help me with read the csv data into my code. thanks

Answer 1

Unfortunately parsing strings (and consequently files) is very tedious in C++.

I highly recommend using a library, ideally a header-only one, like this one.

If you insist on writing it yourself, maybe you can draw some inspiration from this StackOverflow question on how to parse general CSV files in C++.