Thread: How to reset file being read?

Code:

if(inFile >> testGrade[0])
found = true;
	
	for(int a = 0; a < 4; a++)
		{
		inFile >> testGrade[a];
		cout << testGrade[a] << " ";
		}
	inFile.getline(studentName[0],40);
	cout << studentName[0];
		
}

Im performing a priming read with this file, but its skipping the first one. How would I go about resetting it?

The problem is that inFile >> testGrade[a] reads in something to testGrade but stops at the whitespace after that value. The whitespace is probably a newline after the last value. Then getline attempts to read a line, but it stops when it finds a newline, so it stops immediately without reading anything in. (The getline function discards the trailing newline but operator>> does not, which is why mixing them can cause these kinds of problems.)

The solution is to add inFile.ignore() after a call to operator>> to ignore the newline.