Thread: doing my head in...

the code below is ment to read the first char of every line of a .txt file
except when it comes accorss grouped returns it has a habbit of skipping a line iv'e been sitting on this for almost 2-3 hours and im banging my head against the wall with it...
I tryed to catch it with an if statement but it's not quite working.

Heres the code thats troubleing me:

Code:

char reader; //Reads the file

FILE *obj = NULL;
obj = fopen("test1.obj", "r"); //Open File


if(obj == NULL) //Error Check
{cout << "file not opened!";}
else
{cout<< "opened file! :)" << endl;}


reader = getc(obj);
cout << reader << endl;

for (int x = 0; x < 10; x++) // get 10 lines of info
{


do //find the next line value
{
reader = getc(obj);
}while(reader != '\n');

reader = getc(obj); //goto next byte

if(reader == '\n')
{
cout << "\n";
}
else
{
cout << reader << endl;
}

On a quick look, I suspect your code will skip lines (except maybe the first time) if there is less than two characters in a line.

It might also pay to check for, and respond to, any errors that occur when reading from the file.

Code:

you're using C file i/o and C++ i/o.

Yea Iv'e just recently moved from C to C++ i was origanally using the fstream but it didn't read the whitespace and could quite figgure out how to read it at a lower level so i just threw in the c code, I know it's now exatly the done thing.