//this code is meant to copy all but the first 2 lines of a text file 
//and paste it at the end of another text file
//the text file that is being copied from is of the following format:

//first line is comments
//second line is one number
//the remaining lines constitute a matrix of numbers (1,000 rows X 10,000 columns)

//the matrix is what must be copied and pasted into the other text file

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

string IN=argv[1], OUT=argv[2], temp;
//char temp[256];

ifstream instream;
ofstream outstream;

instream.open(IN.c_str(),ifstream::in);
outstream.open(OUT.c_str(),ofstream::app);

if (instream.fail()) cout << "Could not open instream." << endl;
if (outstream.fail()) cout << "Could not open outstream." << endl;

/*instream.getline(temp, 1, '\n');

//get past the comments
while ((temp='#')) 
 {
 instream.ignore(1024, '\n');
 getline(instream, temp, 1);
 }

//get past the dimmensionality label
instream.ignore(1024, '\n');
*/

instream.ignore(1024, '\n');
instream.ignore(1024, '\n');
instream.ignore(2097152, '\n');

for (int c=0; c<1000; c++)
 {
 for (int i=0; i<10009; i++)
  {
  //instream.getline(temp, 256, ' ');
  getline(instream, temp, ' ');
  outstream << temp << " ";
  }
 outstream << endl;
 }

instream.close();
outstream.close();

return 0;
}