Reading in multiple words on a single line as separate variables (C++)

Question

I have a text file that has two words next to one another separated by a space. I am trying to read in the words using >> but whenever I attempt to do this, it reads in the same word.

string word1;
string word2;

ifstream fin;
fin.open("text.txt");

while (!fout.eof())
{
    fin >> word1;
    cout << word1 << endl;
    fin >> word2;
    cout << word2 << endl;
}

The first word in the file is the. The second is happy. When I try to output the words, both are the. How should I go about reading in both words as separate variables?

Also of interest: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7868998/4581301 Feels weird posting this after the previous comment. — user4581301, Jan 23 '17 at 23:42
@user4581301: sorry for the previous comment it was for some other topic — Raindrop7, Jan 23 '17 at 23:46
@KerrekSB Then should I use something like while(getline(fin, word1))? .eof() is what my book taught me was right. — TEEBQNE, Jan 23 '17 at 23:50
@KerrekSB Introduction to Programming with C++ (2nd Edition). It was used in one of the examples. — TEEBQNE, Jan 24 '17 at 00:05

Raindrop7 · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-24T00:18:45.493

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you can read the word like this:

while (fin >> word1 >> word2)
    cout << word1 << endl << word2 << endl;

edited Jan 24 '17 at 00:18

answered Jan 24 '17 at 00:16

Raindrop7

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Save a bit of code and a redundant flush: `cout << word1 << '\n' << word2 << endl;` – user4581301 Jan 24 '17 at 00:17

Reading in multiple words on a single line as separate variables (C++)

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