getline's not working

Why do my getline's not work? I am trying to read a file that uses | as a delimiter.

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



int main()
{
	std::ifstream inFile("txtSample.txt");
	std::string userInput;
	std::string line;
	int geoID = 0;
	int xCoord = 0;
	int yCoord = 0;
	int wood = 0;
	int clay = 0;
	int iron = 0;
	int stone = 0;
	int food = 0;
	int specID = 0;
	int comID = 0;
	int regID = 0;
	
	std::cout << "Enter the letter n for a newline,"
		<< " or enter anything else to quit."
		<< std::endl;
	std::cin >> userInput;

	while (std::getline(inFile, line))
	{
		std::istringstream tokenizer(line);

		std::getline(tokenizer, geoID, '|' );
		std::getline(tokenizer, xCoord, '|');
		std::getline(tokenizer, yCoord, '|');
		std::getline(tokenizer, wood, '|');
		std::getline(tokenizer, clay, '|');
		std::getline(tokenizer, iron, '|');
		std::getline(tokenizer, stone, '|');
		std::getline(tokenizer, food, '|');
		std::getline(tokenizer, specID, '|');
		std::getline(tokenizer, comID, '|');
		std::getline(tokenizer, regID);
	}

}


txtSample.txt:
25299|286|988|7|3|5|5|5|57|4|3
25301|288|988|5|6|5|4|5|11|4|3
25302|289|988|5|5|6|4|5|28|4|3
25303|290|988|5|6|5|4|5|11|4|3
25304|291|988|5|5|5|5|5|35|4|3
25310|297|988|6|4|5|5|5|54|10|3
std::getline can only be used for reading strings.
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