Dynamic Memory Alloctaion help

Hello,

Im having a problem with putting output from a file onto the screen. It compiles fine with no errors but when i run it, no output is shown on the screen. This is kinda new to me doing it like this. Did I do something wrong in the code because it seems fine? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Code:

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salesData* loadArray (ifstream& fsInventoryFile)
{
  salesData* headPointer;
  salesData* currentPointer;
  salesData record;
  int readOk;
  readOk = readARec(fsInventoryFile, record); //this function is fine
  while(readOk)
  {
      currentPointer = new salesData;
      headPointer = currentPointer;
      *(currentPointer)=record;
      (currentPointer)->next=headPointer;
      readOk = readARec(fsInventoryFile, record);
  }
    cout <<"loadArray"<<endl;
    return currentPointer;
}


void displayArray (salesData* headPointer)
{
    int i=0;
    salesData* currentPointer = headPointer;
  while (currentPointer != NULL)
  {
      cout <<i+1 <<")\t";
      cout <<setw(9) <<currentPointer->itemCode
              <<setw(17) <<&(currentPointer->itemCode);
    cout.unsetf(ios::left);
    cout <<setw(2) <<currentPointer->quantity;
    cout.setf(ios::left);
    cout <<setw(4) << " "
            <<setw(14) <<&(currentPointer->quantity)
            <<setw(8) <<currentPointer->price
            <<&(currentPointer->price)
            <<endl;
            currentPointer = currentPointer->next;
        i++;
        }

        cout <<endl <<endl;

        return;
}

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I believe you cannot do while(readOk), I think you can only do this will bool statements and not ints...

I tried that...nothing happened. But thanks for the thought...

I'll post the rest of the code just in case it is needed....

Code:

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struct salesData
{
        char itemCode[8];
        int quantity;
        float price;
        //-------------
        salesData *next;        //record pointer
};

salesData* loadArray (ifstream& fsInventoryFile);
void displayArray (salesData* headPointer);
int readARec(ifstream& fsInventoryFile,salesData& record);

const int SIZE = 100;

void main (void)
{
  ifstream fsInventoryFile;
  char filePath[80] = "a:\\in05.01";
  salesData *headPointer=NULL;
  salesData *currentPointer=NULL;
  headPointer=currentPointer;
 
  fsInventoryFile.open(filePath);
  if(!fsInventoryFile)
  {
        cout <<"Unable to open: " <<filePath <<endl;
  }
  else
  {
    headPointer = loadArray (fsInventoryFile);
    displayArray (headPointer);
    fsInventoryFile.close();
    }

}// end of main

// code from above post here

int readARec(ifstream& fsInventoryFile, salesData& record)
{
  bool readOk = 1;
  fsInventoryFile >> record.quantity
                        >> record.price
                        >> record.itemCode;
  if ((fsInventoryFile.eof()) || (fsInventoryFile.fail()))
        {
        readOk=0;
        }

  return readOk;
}//end readARec

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Thanks for your help.... I found out it is suppose to go backwards as a link list... i will try and play around with it to see if i can make it work as it is suppose too...or any help is always nice...Thanks again!