Help with linear search funtion.

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I have written a function for my code in which I have a .txt file with an array of 50 with only 11 numbers inserted. Therefore at the beginning of this function my num_records which is what i used to store the total amount of numbers in the file, will be 11. When a user enters a number I want this function to find the number or display an error if the number is not in the file. An example to test it would be that 5 is in the .txt file while 8 is not. Though this loop won't break.

{
	bool found = false;

	while (!found || num_records != 0)
	{
		if (list[num_records] == target)
		{
			cout << target << endl;
			found = true;
		}
		num_records--;
	}

	return found;
}