Loading a Linux formatted text file using a C++ windows application

Loading a Linux formatted text file using a C++ windows application

My problem is I am trying to load a Linux formatted text file and read it
regularly as is one was opening up a windows formatted text file in a C++
application. I have gotten it to work perfectly when the file is formatted
exactly how I want it to be in windows and have the data form the file
loaded into a list of lists.
To try to describe my problem a little better what I am currently able to
do right now is if I have a file which is tab delimited I am able to store
all of the contents from each row into a list of strings where each string
is whatever each tab is separating. I then have a list of all of the rows.
For example my text file I'm reading my look something like this:
156 Hit 83.2 23:34 23 Miss 21.4 23:38
and so on....
This code spinet below is what I have been using, which I had found help
elsewhere and altered it to work how I needed it to. It will create a list
with two items in the list where each of the items contains a list of 4
strings each string representing the contents in each of "columns" for the
current row. Hope this is explained thorough enough.
ifstream infile(file);
list <list <string> > data;
while (infile){
string s;
if (!getline( infile, s )) break;
std::istringstream ss ( s );
list <string> record;
while (ss){
string s;
if (!getline( ss, s, '\t' )) break;
record.push_back( s );
}
data.push_back( record );
}
That is exactly what I would like to do however instead of the text file I
would be reading from being formatted as a Windows text file it will be a
Linux text file and will not have a tab in-between each "item" in each
row; but instead will contain a random number of spaces. My thought was I
could open the file up in binary mode and read it that way and instead of
having a tab be my delimiter I could choose any amount of white space.
However I am not exactly sure how to do that as I am still relatively new
to C++ and have not specifically worked with reading Linux formatted text
files from a Windows C++ application. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks in advance!