image how to deal with a .dat file containing characters

Hi everyone,

I'm programming with Visual Studio 2005.

Could anyone help me to read a .dat file who contains some columns of characters, it looks like the following:

01 Magenta
red 255
green 0
blue 255

02 Turquoise
red 64
green 264
blue 208

How can I asign each data to a variable? For example, the color name to a variable named m_ColorName.

Thank you very much in advance!!