File Streams, new error on me.

Ive been useing file streams in my projects all along, this is the first time ive used it with MFC.

here is the error im getting

"error C2678: binary '>>' : no operator defined which takes a left-hand operand of type 'class ifstream' (or there is no acceptable conversion)"

And here is a code snippet

ifstream file(m_filename);
file >> m_type >> endl; //error on this line

m_filename is a CString with the name of the file to be opened
m_type is an int with the value 0;

The file dose exist, and has only one numer value on the first line.

Take out the '>> endl'.

to avoid overlooking the obvious--did you include the fstream header file?

Otherwise, this might be worth a thought. fstreams take a char * as the argument, not a CString. I suspect CString has a conversion function like c_str() to "convert" a CStrings to a char*. If file is passed something other than a char * it might not allow the fstream to become "functional". This in turn might cause an error such as reported as the compiler might be confusing the >> operator to be a binary shift operator rather than an overloaded extraction operator.

But I like icegoblin's answer even better.