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I am trying to read in a file formated like this:

"Champion: "aatrox
  Aatrox heals for 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30% of the premitigation-physical damage he deals, with a 15% effectiveness against non-champions.
  Additionally, Aatrox stores a Umbral Dash charge every 24 / 20 / 16 / 12 / 8 seconds, up to 2 stored at once.
  Aatrox dashes in the target direction, gaining 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 bonus attack damage for 1.5 seconds.
  Umbral Dash can be cast during his other spellcasts without interrupting them.
"the end"
"Champion: "ahri
  Ahri blows a kiss that deals 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+40% of ability power) magic damage to an enemy and charms it, causing them to walk harmlessly towards her for 1.4 / 1.55 / 1.7 / 1.85 / 2 seconds.
  When Charm damages a champion, Ahri's abilities deal 20% more damage to them for 5 seconds.
"the end"

I need to be able to read in the champion name, store it in a string, then read in the information after and store it in a string

Savage Potato
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    Not clear on what the problem is. Having trouble writing the parser? Having trouble with [`std::unordered_map`](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/unordered_map)? If both, start by writing the parser and worry about storage later. Easier to solve one job at a time than two. – user4581301 Dec 06 '18 at 22:13
  • writing the parser – Savage Potato Dec 06 '18 at 22:14
  • Which line of input describes `qAbility`. Heck, what the heck is a `qAbility`? Variable names are of limited value if they don't describe what they contain. Might as well just call this one `q` and save on the typing since it doesn't contain much extra value. – user4581301 Dec 06 '18 at 22:16
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I prefer regex because its really flexible. Also if you use boost you can directly run regex through file as claimed from Using a regex_iterator on an istream

below is sample code you can easily implement

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <regex>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    const std::regex characterPattern(R"-(("Champion:\s*")(\w+))-");

    std::ifstream charsfile;
    charsfile.exceptions (std::ifstream::failbit | std::ifstream::badbit );
    charsfile.open("/home/abdurrahim/projects/testregex/test.txt");

    const std::string charstext((std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(charsfile)),
                 std::istreambuf_iterator<char>());

    charsfile.close();

    for(std::sregex_iterator i(charstext.begin(), charstext.end(), characterPattern); i != std::sregex_iterator(); ++i)
    {
        std::smatch m = *i;

        std::cout << m[1] << " found at " << m.position() << " with name '"  << m[2] << "'" << std::endl;
    }

    return 0;
}

I use online regex tester to play around finding such regex patterns

Abdurrahim
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