why ">>" operator in "istream" passes new lines?

[Ardeshir81]

HI!
Suppose this is student.txt

joe
6849
computer
diploma

bill
1859
electronic
BSc

john
78946
computer
BSc

As you see there are some informations about some people in university.

What I want to do is to read these information from file with this code :

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

using std :: cout ;
using std :: ifstream ;
using std :: string ;
using std :: endl ;

int main ()
{
    ifstream myfile ;
    string line ;
    myfile.open ("student.txt") ;
    while (! myfile.eof ())
    {
        myfile >> line ;
        cout << "first name : " << line << endl ;
        myfile >> line ;
        cout << "last name : " << line << endl ;
        myfile >> line ;
        cout << "ID : " << line << endl ;
        myfile >> line ;
        cout << "last degree : " << line << endl ;
        myfile >> line ;
        cout << "major : " << line << endl ;
        myfile >> line ;
        cout << "date registered : " << line << endl ;
    }
    return 0 ;
}

What I expected at the first was that for the second and third person the program Ignores their names , because there is a new line before them and the program will count it as the "line" for the name .
Why is that?
What if I wanted my program to count blank lines in a file?
I even made the blank lines more (for example 10 blank lines between every field of information) and still I had problem.
THank you!

[vlad from moscow]

In this case use function

std::getline( myfile, line );

[Peter87]

The way >> works is that it ignores all whitespace characters up until the first non-whitespace character and then it tries to read whatever it is you are reading. The newline character is a whitespace character so it will be treated the same way as a normal space or any other whitespace character.