Ignore up to 10 characters or until first space is found : ifstream « File Stream « C++ Tutorial

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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
  ifstream in("test");

  if(!in) {
    cout << "Cannot open file.\n";
    return 1;
  }

  in.ignore(10, ' ');
  char c;
  while(in) {
    in.get(c);
    if(in) cout << c;
  }

  in.close();
  return 0;
}