Thread: strange file opening problem

I am trying to use a file stream to count some data. The odd thing is the second time I use the ifstream, the file opens but it doesnt seem to read any data at all. Here is the code from the working portion:

Code:

ifstream infile;
ofstream outfile;
infile.open("08_28_06.txt");

while(getline(infile, line)){
         string cat = line.substr(48, 3);
        if(cat == "HHD" || cat == "TLT")
           hhd++;
        else if(cat == "BAK")
             bak++;
        else if(cat == "BEV")
             bev++;
        else if(cat == "BXB")
             bxb++;
        else if(cat == "CND")
             cnd++;
        else if(cat == "CNJ")
             cnj++;
        else if(cat == "CON")
             con++;
        else if(cat == "HAB" || cat == "MED")
             haba++;
        else if(cat == "RFR")
             rfr++;
        else if(cat == "SNK")
             snk++;
        else if(cat == "STA")
             sta++;
        else if(cat == "SNA")
             sna++;
        else
            misc++;
    }
    infile.close();

And here is the non-working part:

Code:

line = "";
    infile.open("NEW_BAK.csv");
    bak = 0;
    while(getline(infile, line)){
        if(isdigit(line[0]))
         bak++;
    }
    cout << "BAK: " << bak << endl;
    infile.close();

I tried putting the statement: if(infile.is_open()) cout << "open"; before the loop and it works, so the file is opened... but it never enters the loop and there IS stuff in the file.

thanks

thanks! I didn't know that and was completely stumped.