trouble with a for loop with an if statement nested in

Hey people i am having trouble with a for loop with an if statement nested in. I have read the data below

Code:

Forsyth, Frederick      ;The fist of god               ;A;102391
Follett, Ken            ;The pillars of the earth      ;A;103795
Francis, Clare          ;Wolf winter                   ;A;112424
Smith, Wilbur           ;A falcon flies                ;A;151395
Forsyth, Frederick      ;The day of the jackal         ;A;159151
Blackmore, R.D.         ;Lorna Doone                   ;A;193292
Smith, Wilbur           ;Men of men                    ;A;292351
Smith, Wilbur           ;The angels weep               ;A;482315
James, P.D.             ;Cover her face                ;D;144371
James, P.D.             ;Devices and desires           ;D;193395
Kellerman, Faye         ;Stone kiss                    ;D;434517
James, P.D.             ;The skull beneath the skin    ;D;439518
Kelly, Jim              ;The water clock               ;D;543951
Hoag, Tami              ;Dark horse                    ;D;664333
Cookson, Catherine      ;The silent lady               ;R;151611
Cookson, Catherine      ;Kate hannigans girl           ;R;165163
Thompson, E.V.          ;The lost years                ;R;165213
Steel, Danielle         ;The cottage                   ;R;177516
Binchley, Maeve         ;Quentins                      ;R;261561
Alcott, Louisa          ;Little women                  ;R;395104
Cookson, Catherine      ;Rosie of the river            ;R;512843
Asimov, Isaac           ;Foundation                    ;S;165108
Barker, Clive           ;Imajica                       ;S;172816
Barker, Clive           ;The great and secret show     ;S;174427
Barker, Clive           ;Weaveworld                    ;S;282118
Clarke, Arthur C        ;2001 A space odessy           ;S;294561
Asimov, Isaac           ;Foundation and empire         ;S;313178
Asimov, Isaac           ;Second foundation             ;S;549201

I read this data into an array as so.

Code:

  ifstream accfile ("bookdata.txt");
  book b[max];
  int counter = 0;
do
  {
    getline(accfile, b[counter].secondname, ',');
    getline(accfile, b[counter].firstname, ';');
    getline(accfile, b[counter].title, ';');
    accfile >> b[counter].cat;
    accfile.ignore(1,';');
    accfile >> b[counter].bnumber;
    if (accfile)
      {
        counter++;
      }
  } while (accfile && counter < max);
 accfile.close(); // close file

Then i used this code here to let the user enter the author surname and display some data about the book

Code:

 string authorname;
 cin >> authorname;
 for (int as = 0; as == counter; as++)
   {
     if(b[as].secondname==authorname)
       {
        cout << b[as].secondname << b[as].firstname << b[as].title
             << b[as].cat;
       }
   }

for some reason it only works if a enter Forsyth (b[0]) but noting else. Any ideas???.

Code:

 for (int as = 0;  as < counter; as++)

Edit: but then if you use as == counter it shouldn't enter the loop at all unless counter is 0.

Ok i have edited the for loop to

for (int as = 0; as < counter; as++)

but it is still only displaying an answer when i type Forsyth a.k.a (b[0]) when i enter any other name it won't display anything

On input, you need to ignore the newline at the end of each line. Every time through the loop after the first line, there is still a newline character at the end of the previous line. This newline character is getting tacked on to the beginning of the secondname field, so it never matches what you type in later on.

Ok cheers ZuK and Daved (again) the code is working perfectly