Reseting the get pointer

[Ima noob]

I've tried closing and opening the fstream, and ive tried using seekg( 0, ios::beg ) but those arent working for me. Right now i have a function that reads through the file once to read how many lines there are, then once that while loop breaks i try to reset it to look through the file again for different characters. Any ideas?

EDIT***: Changed it so the counting lines is in a different function but its still not working.

[S6k9GNh0]

Give us the code. From what you make it sound like it should be working. So just post the code so we can get a better look. Be sure to use BBTags.

[Hammurabi]

Since the stream object has encountered eof it is in a bad state, so you must clear it with fstrObj.clear();. Then you can fstrObj.seekg(0); without needing to close and reopen the file.

[jloundy]

i think seekg(0) is right for bringing pointer to beginning of a file.