well, the problem is that the archive that i want to open has to many lines, so i tried to do 1 getline for each line, but its not working it dont compile :/ help plz, tyCode:string c,e; float d,j,k,l,n; int m; char a[18]; cout<<"Type the archive that you want to open:\n"; cin.getline(a,18); cin.ignore(); ifstream a_file ( a ); getline(a_file,c); getline(a_file,d); getline(a_file,e); getline(a_file,j); getline(a_file,k); getline(a_file,l); getline(a_file,m); getline(a_file,n); cout<<"ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ\n"; cout<<""<< c <<"\n"; cout<<""<< d <<"\n"; cout<<""<< e <<"\n"; cout<<""<< j <<"\n"; cout<<""<< k <<"\n"; cout<<""<< l <<"\n"; cout<<""<< m <<"\n"; cout<<""<< n <<"\n"; cout<<"ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ\n";