The ignore function... I actually need it.

I'm a first year C++ programmer, and I actually have a program where I need the ignore function. Currently, as I understand it from my book - and I made a tiny program to confirm it, the ignore function skips the 'x' amount of characters.

Well, I need the ignore function to skip everything after the 'x' amount of characters. Is that possible to do?

I don't get why you need to skip everything after the x but here, this web page might help. http://www.cpp-home.com/loobian/tutorials/file_io/6.php
it has some examples and references the seekg() function which might be what you need.

Jason