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thanks guys for ure help

i figured out what the problem was
i was using
fin>>ch;
but that is error prone and was screwing up in this case
aaaahhhh i know

so i used fin.get(ch)
worked fine

i needed to write a prog to display which line a character is found in, in a text file

so basically my problem is checking for the new line or end of line

i mean
if(ch=='\n')
line++;
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