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Outfile not writing to txt

ashley50 (14)
I'm trying to produce an output file named 'emp_data.txt' containing results from the following functions:

output_payroll_data
and
output_payroll_summary

https://github.com/ashley51/payroll_prog/blob/master/Lab14_Payroll.cpp

From what I understand, replacing 'std::cout' with 'outfile' for the lines I would like to be written on the text file should produce the result that I need.

But upon ending the program, the text file remains blank.

I most likely understood it wrong...

But doing a single line like:
outfile << full_name << " " << hours << " " << hourly_rate << std::endl;
Writes to the text file.
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Chervil (7320)
Here's one way to do it:
Prototypes:
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void output_payroll_data (std::string full_name, double regular_hours, double overtime_hours,
                          double hourly_rate, double gross_pay, double tax, double deductions,
                          double net_pay, std::ostream & out = std::cout);

void output_payroll_summary(int num_emps, std::string emp_names[],
                            double emp_grosses[], double total_gross_pay, 
                            double ave_gross_pay, double min_gross_pay, 
                            double max_gross_pay, std::ostream& out = std::cout);


Function definitions:
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void output_payroll_data (std::string full_name, double regular_hours, double overtime_hours,
                          double hourly_rate, double gross_pay, double tax, double deductions,
                          double net_pay, std::ostream & out)
{
        out << std::endl;
        out << "12345678901234567890##21.00##21.00##321.00"
                  << "##4321.00##321.00##321.00##4321.00" << std::endl;
        out << "                      Reg.   Ovt.   Hourly"
                  << "  Gross                    Net    " << std::endl;
        out << "Name                  Hours  Hours  Rate  "
                  << "  Pay      Taxes   Deduct  Pay    " << std::endl;
        out << "====================  =====  =====  ======"
                  << "  =======  ======  ======  =======" << std::endl;
        out << std::left << std::setw(20) << full_name << "  ";
        out << std::right;
        out << std::setw(5) << regular_hours << "  ";
        out << std::setw(5) << overtime_hours << "  ";
        out << std::setw(6) << hourly_rate << "  ";
        out << std::setw(7) << gross_pay << "  ";
        out << std::setw(6) << tax << "  ";
        out << std::setw(6) << deductions << "  ";
        out << std::setw(7) << net_pay << std::endl << std::endl;
}

and similarly for the other function.

Then when calling the function from main(), this will output to console as at present:
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        output_payroll_data (full_name, regular_hours, overtime_hours, 
                             hourly_rate, gross_pay, tax, deductions, net_pay);


and/or this to output to the file
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        output_payroll_data (full_name, regular_hours, overtime_hours, 
                             hourly_rate, gross_pay, tax, deductions, net_pay, outfile);

ashley50 (14)
Thanks for the response.
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