Loop Reads data Twice?

[TaytayB]

Hey there, I'm currently writing code for a small "Mock internet dating service", Everything work's perfectly for reading in the names from file, except that I keep getting the last name in the file twice.

#include<fstream>
#include<iostream>
#include<iomanip>
#include<string>
using namespace std;


//FUNCTION PROTOTYPES
void printHeader();

int main()
{
	struct Member//Database Member structure. Stores name and the scores as an array.
	{
		string name;
		int scores[10];
	} male[15], female[15];
	char ch;
	int maleCount = 0, femaleCount = 0;

	printHeader();//Print header

	ifstream inputFile;//Loads file into code
	inputFile.open("client.txt");
	
	while(inputFile)
	{
		inputFile.get(ch);
		if(ch == 'M')
		{
			cout << ch << "    ";
			for(int count = 0; count < 10; count++)
			{
				inputFile >> male[maleCount].scores[count];
				cout << male[maleCount].scores[count] << ' ';
			}
			getline(inputFile,male[maleCount].name);
			cout << "   ";
			cout << male[maleCount].name;
		}
		else if(ch == 'F')
		{
			cout << ch << "    ";
			for(int count = 0; count < 10; count++)
			{
				inputFile >> female[femaleCount].scores[count];
				cout << female[femaleCount].scores[count] << ' ';
			}
			getline(inputFile,female[femaleCount].name);
			cout << "   ";
			cout << female[femaleCount].name;
		}
		else
		{
			cout << "\t\tERROR IN FILE!!!";
			inputFile.ignore(200,'\n');
		}
		cout << endl;

	}

	
	inputFile.clear();//Clear file buffer


	return 0;
	
}

void printHeader()
{
	cout << "SUPER AWESOME INTERNET DATING SERVICE!\n\n";

	cout << "SEX  ANSWERS              NAME\n";
	cout << "----------------------------------------------------\n";
}

Here's kinda what client.txt looks like:
M 1 2 3 4 5 5 4 3 2 1 Thom
F 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 Sally
M 2 4 1 3 5 4 2 3 1 1 Alfred
M 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 James
F 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 3 2 Veronica
M 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Moe

Any tips to prevent reading the last line twice?

[toum]

Your problem comes from the fact you test your stream before reading from it.
Change line 26 for while(inputFile.get(ch)) and remove line 28.

For more details, see:
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/istream-and-eof.html
http://gehrcke.de/2011/06/reading-files-in-c-using-ifstream-dealing-correctly-with-badbit-failbit-eofbit-and-perror/

[TaytayB]

toum - Thank you very much!