Thread: linked list printing problem

I have a data file, which reads the data in to a linked list using a for loop;

Code:

ifstream datafile ("max.txt", ios :: in);

		if (!datafile)
		{
			cout<<"Unable to open the file"<<endl<<endl;
		}

else	
{	
			datafile>>currentp->name;
			datafile>>currentp->itemnumber;
			datafile>>currentp->price;

			for(int i=0; i<2; i++)
			{
			
			currentp->nextp = new furniture;
			currentp = currentp->nextp;
			
			datafile>>currentp->name;
			datafile>>currentp->itemnumber;
			datafile>>currentp->price;
			}

when i try to use a function to print out the data in the linked list the program crashes.

Code:

void printList(furniture* startp) 
{
    furniture* currentp;
    
      currentp = startp;  
      while(currentp ->nextp !=NULL) 
	  {
  	    cout << currentp->name<<"\t";
		cout << currentp->itemnumber<<"\t";
		cout << currentp->price<<endl;
        currentp = currentp->nextp;
	  
    }
	
    cout << endl;
}

any ideas.