title: Reading specific elements from a CSV file in C++
body: <p>I'm trying to create a reference program which I think will use an excel spreadsheet to hold information for reading only. I want the user to be able to select a topic from an option list and have the information in the appropriate cell be fed back to them. The program is being written in C++. My question is, how do I access specific cells from a spreadsheet from my program? I've researched it a little and I've seen that I want to save my file as a csv and use fscanf to read the contents, but I'm at a loss as to how I would do this part. I googled it and found this thread: </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/cpp/threads/204808/parsing-a-csv-file-separated-by-semicolons" rel="nofollow">http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/cpp/threads/204808/parsing-a-csv-file-separated-by-semicolons</a></p>
  
  <p>but I think it reads in all of the data from the CSV? From what I can tell anyways. And I only want to pull specific elements. Is that possible?</p>