I read through a file once to find the number of lines it contains then read through it again so I can store some data of each line in an array. Is there a better way to read through the file twice than closing and opening it again? Here is what I got but am afraid it's inefficient.
int numOfMappings = 0;
ifstream settingsFile("settings.txt");
string setting;
while(getline(settingsFile, setting))
{
numOfMappings++;
}
char* mapping = new char[numOfMappings];
settingsFile.close();
cout << "numOfMappings: " << numOfMappings << endl;
settingsFile.open("settings.txt");
while(getline(settingsFile, setting))
{
cout << "line: " << setting << endl;
}