help reading from a text file.

[soccerfan12]

hello im trying to read from a text file. but does not open the file and does the else statement? does the location of the file matter? or is the format wrong?

 /[code]void readFromFile()
{
	int pIDIndex = 1;

	int totalRunTimeTemp = 0;
	//Task tempTask;
	ifstream queueFile ("queue.txt");

	//queueFile.open("queue.txt");

	while (!queueFile.eof())

	{
		if (queueFile.is_open())
		{

			Task tempTask;
			tempTask.pID = pIDIndex;
			pIDIndex++;

			queueFile >> tempTask.initialPriority;
			queueFile >> tempTask.totalRunTime;

			tempTask.currentPriority = tempTask.initialPriority;
			tempTask.remainingRunTime = tempTask.totalRunTime;

			PriorityQueues[tempTask.initialPriority].push(tempTask);
			cout << " it works" << endl;
		}
		else
			cout << "plz check file" << endl;

	}

	queueFile.close();

}

[Kurisutofaa]

You have the queueFile.open command commented out. That's why the file is never opened.

[Thomas1965]

You should check if the file is opened.

void readFromFile()
{
   ifstream queueFile ("queue.txt");
   if(!queueFile)
   {
       perror("readFromFile ");
       return;
   }
}

Also don't use !queueFile.eof(). iT does not work as expected.
Use this instead.

   Task tempTask;
   while(queueFile >> tempTask.initialPriority >>  tempTask.totalRunTime)
   {
       // your logic here
   }

[soccerfan12]

kurisutofaa lve tried that and thomas yea the file wont open.

[Thomas1965]

What was the error message?

[soccerfan12]

thomas it was a dumb mistake. when the program ran with would recreate a txt file and i would just rename it, instead of making a new one.