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My filename is "bca.txt" and below is my file data

Name  salary  Department
john   12000     IT
jack   14000    sales

I write program to read this file in my file. First word is employee name.
I read first word in string variable and second word is salary.
I read salary in integer variable but integer do not read salary.

This is my code

C++

#include <iostream.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <fstream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void main()
{
    clrscr();
    char  name[50];
    int sal;        // this creates problem 
    char dept[30];
    
    ifstream infile;
    infile.open("bca.txt");
    
    while(!infile.eof())
    {
        infile>>name>>sal>>dept;
        cout<<name<<"  "<<sal<<"  "<<dept<<endl;   
    }

    infile.close();
    getch();
}

Posted 1-Jun-13 19:57pm

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Updated 1-Jun-13 20:23pm

Tadit Dash (ତଡିତ୍ କୁମାର ଦାଶ)

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Andreas Gieriet 2-Jun-13 2:25am

So, what is the question?
Cheers
Andi

Richard MacCutchan 2-Jun-13 3:05am

You need to read the salary field into a string variable and then convert it to an integer with atoi(), or similar function.

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Andreas Gieriet · Answer 1 · 2013-06-01T20:27:00

Solution 1

Skip the first line before reading the rest of the data: the column header "salary" is not a number.
Cheers
Andi

Posted 1-Jun-13 20:27pm

Andreas Gieriet

Updated 2-Jun-13 2:25am

v2

mbue · Answer 2 · 2013-06-02T23:59:00

Indeed you have to drop the first line.

C++

// skip the head line
infile>>name>>name>>name;
while(!infile.eof())
{
  // read the record
  infile>>name>>sal>>dept;
  // drop if read the line fails
  if(infile.rdstate()) break;
  // display the readen data
  cout<<name<<"  "<<sal<<"  "<<dept<<endl;
}

good luck.