[Dev-C++] newbie string parsing question

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Hi all,

Thank you in advance for any help that you can offer.

I have a text file that has records like this:

Firstname 	Lastname 	age  //seperated by the \t character.

I want to run a while loop and parse the record to populate a struct array.
I have looked into the getline(string, max, delimiter) function but it needs char[]'s.
Since I don't know the length of the string that I need can someone recommend
an existing different class function or something?

Best regards,

Dane