Hello,
I was wondering what would be the easiest way in c++ to read a line
from a csv file; each row of the file starts with a string and follows with a variable number of numeric (double), ';' separated values.
I'd like to read the string into a string variable and the doubles into
a vector.
Thanks for your help.

look up strtok, and strtok_r for threaded programmings. I'll tell you now that it's a slightly confusing command. If you need help with it, just ask. Untill then i'll let you use the million docs written on it.

Thanks karlan. I think I can handle the string-splitting part even without strtok. What I don't like though, is the whole loop concept
(lines 18 - 22 of the code dump below) - is it really necessary?. I wonder if something like
vector <double> d;
is >> d;
could work instead of the while loop - or would I have to take care of the '>>' operator overloading myself?
Thanks again.

This is the best I could come up with so far:

1 string rowhead;
2 double dval;
3 string row;
4 vector <double> dvals;
5 vector<double>::iterator iter;
6 int pos;

7 row.erase(row.begin(), row.end());
8 ifstream fin("path_to_the_source_file");
9 while(getline(fin, row))
10 {
11 cout << "Input: " << row << "\n";
12 while((pos = row.find(";",0)) != -1)
13 {
14 row.replace(pos, 1, " ");
15 }
16 istringstream is(row);
17 is >> rowhead;
18 while(!is.eof())
19 {
20 is >> dval;
21 if(!is.eof()) dvals.push_back(dval);
22 }
23 cout << "Output: " << rowhead << ";";
24 for(iter = dvals.begin(); iter < dvals.end(); iter++)
25 cout << *iter << ((iter == dvals.end() - 1) ? "\n" : ";");
26 row.erase(row.begin(), row.end());
27 dvals.clear();
28 }

try to use file.eof() to signify eof file, don't use the output of getline.

btw. I'm horible with c++ stl, so i'm no help here. sorry