File Not open

[fahmankhan75]

I have developed a code here that opens the input file. If the file does not open, I want it to prompt "file not open." The problem in code is that I have created an input file that has data on it and I even have it open during the runtime. I'm still getting an output on the console saying "The file is not open," especially when it is.

 //make a file for input
void make_input(ifstream &fin,string &filename)

{
	cout<<"Input File: ";
	getline(cin,filename);

	//Open the file
	fin.open(filename);
		//if file doesnt open
			if(!fin)
				cout<<"\nFile not open";
}

[Smac89]

From this website:
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/fstream/ifstream/open/

std::ifstream::open

cplusplus wrote:

...If the stream is already associated with a file (i.e., it is already open), calling this function fails.

Seeing as you are passing the ifstream object by reference, make sure it is not already opening a file prior to trying to use it to open another file

[fahmankhan75]

Kind of confused on this, but how necessarily do I fix this? just to make, is this code written correctly though?