[mono15591]

Well the only thing I want to know is why this works

in_stream.open("data.txt");
			cout<< "data.txt: ";

			if(in_stream.is_open()==true){
				while(in_stream.eof()==false){
					getline(in_stream,file_data);
					
				}
				cout<< file_data;
				in_stream.close();
			}

and this doesn't

in_stream.open("data.txt");
			cout<< "data.txt: ";

			if(in_stream.is_open()==true){
				while(in_stream.eof()==false){
					getline(in_stream,file_data);
					cout<< file_data;
				}
				in_stream.close();
			}

The top one successfully displays whatever is in the file while the second one doesn't display it. My question is, why?
also I don't know why the indenting got messed up but I'm not going to fix it lol

Thanks in advance!

[Anarion]

I wrote this simple code and it works:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main (int argc, char * const argv[]) {
	string buf;
	ifstream in("data");
	if(in.is_open()) {
		while(!in.eof()) {
				getline(in, buf);
				cout<<buf<<endl;
		}
		in.close();
	}

	return 0;
}

Looking at your code, it seems exactly like mine... are you sure it doesn't work?
Edit: Your first code is not good as it only outputs the last line read from the file, and your second code should work just fine because mine works good

This post has been edited by Anarion: 02 December 2009 - 04:55 AM