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Lesliect6 · Feb 9th, 2007, 12:51 PM

Hello,

I would like to know the cause of this anomaly in a recent code I made. The code opens a file, and reads the number of lines in it. It works with some files, and does not with others. The code snippet is the following :

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...
#define NEXT_LINE 10
...
int main()
{
...
char c, str[256];
int lines=1;

ifstream fin;
cin >> str;
fin.open(str); 

while (fin.good())
{
    c=fin.get();
    if (c==NEXT_LINE) lines++;
}

cout << "The number of lines in the file : " << lines;
...

While this code works with a .txt and a .bak file I made for the program, it does not work with an .x and an .exe file. I don't know where I made the error, could you help me?

Thank you,
Leslie

Feb 9th, 2007, 12:51 PM	#1
Lesliect6 Programmer Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 68 Rep Power: 4	file reading anomaly Hello, I would like to know the cause of this anomaly in a recent code I made. The code opens a file, and reads the number of lines in it. It works with some files, and does not with others. The code snippet is the following : (Toggle Plain Text) ... #define NEXT_LINE 10 ... int main() { ... char c, str[256]; int lines=1; ifstream fin; cin >> str; fin.open(str); while (fin.good()) { c=fin.get(); if (c==NEXT_LINE) lines++; } cout << "The number of lines in the file : " << lines; ... ... #define NEXT_LINE 10 ... int main() { ... char c, str[256]; int lines=1; ifstream fin; cin >> str; fin.open(str); while (fin.good()) { c=fin.get(); if (c==NEXT_LINE) lines++; } cout << "The number of lines in the file : " << lines; ... While this code works with a .txt and a .bak file I made for the program, it does not work with an .x and an .exe file. I don't know where I made the error, could you help me? Thank you, Leslie

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