StreamUtilities.C

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// This class
#include <queso/asserts.h>
#include <queso/StreamUtilities.h>

// C++
#include <istream>
#include <locale> // isspace

namespace QUESO
{
  void StreamUtilities::skip_comment_lines( std::istream &in,
                                            const char comment_start)
  {
    char c, line[256];

    in.get(c);
    // std::isspace used to be std::isblank, but the latter requires C++11
    // There are slight differences, but for our purposes, this should
    // be OK.
    while(std::isspace(c))in.get(c);

    in.putback(c);
    queso_require( !in.fail() );

    while (in.get(c), c==comment_start)
       in.getline (line, 255);

    // put back first character of
    // first non-comment line
    in.putback (c);
    queso_require( !in.fail() );

  }

} // end namespace QUESO