Thread: Program Compiles but does not read proper file....

I have this code, and it compiles - it asks for the file to look at to get the information from and I type in the file which is account and i also tried account.txt and then it doesn't do anything else. It says press any button to continue and then exits out of everything. I'm not sure whats going on.
Can anyone help me????? Thanks

Code:

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

using namespace std;

struct Entry
{
	string date, action;
	float amount;
	string descript;
}Entry;

int main()
{
	string name, date, action, descript;
	float balance, amount;

	ifstream fin;
	ofstream fout;

	cout << "enter the name of the Checkbook filename: " << endl;

	cin >> name;

	//string update(name);

	//update.append(".update");

	fin.open(name.c_str(), ios::in);
	

	fin >> balance;

	while (!fin.eof())
	{
		fin >> date >> action;
		//cout << date << action;
		fout << date << action;

		if (action == "credit")
		{
			fin >> amount;

			fout << amount;

			balance = balance + amount;

		}

		else if (action == "debit")
		{
			fin >> amount;

			fout << amount;

			balance = balance - amount;

		}

		getline(fin, descript);

		fout << descript;
	}

	fout << balance;

	fin.close();
	//fout.close();

}//end main

If you are running it from within the compiler that is your problem.
The working directory for programs ran in the compiler is different than where the actual .cpp file is. Run the exe with the file in the same directory as the exe.

try not to use your struct name as the variable itself

You never open a file for the output stream fout, you just start writing to it. You need to specify a filename for the output file. Then, if the program is working, it will still say press any button to continue, but there will be an output file with the data you wrote to fout. If you change fout to cout it would output to the screen.