c++ - inheritance - use parent's read method in child -

can use parent's read() function read first , last names, , have child's read() read middle name? or have read first, second, , middle in child?

edit:the first answer seems working when read in child using strtok, whole line, not third field. there way around it, or have read first 2 fields dummy variables , read third field?

class parent { protected:   char first[80], last[80];    virtual istream& read(istream &is) {     char temp[80];     char *f, *l;     >> temp;     f = strtok(temp, ",");     strcpy(first, f);     l = strtok(null, ",");     strcpy(last, l);     return is;   }  public:   friend istream& operator>> (istream &is, parent &parent) {     return parent.read(is);   } };  class child: public parent {   char middle[80];    istream& read(istream &is) {     /*inherit first , last parent*/     char temp[80];     char *m;     >> temp;     m = strtok(temp, ",");     strcpy(middle, m);   } };  in main()  parent *object; ifstream inf("filename.csv"); object = new child(); inf >> *object; 

cat filename.csv

george,bush,walker 

in read function in child class, can call parents read function this:

class child : public parent {     // ...      std::istream &read(std::istream &is)     {         parent::read(is);         // read more     } };