why does this program giving one output even if the initial position is at the end?

[rajhansk]

why does this program giving output '1' even if the initial position is at the end?

  #include <iostream>
#include<fstream>
#include<string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    ifstream Input_file;
    string items;
    int counter=0;
    Input_file.open("d:/new_file.txt",ios::ate);
    if(Input_file.fail())
    {
        cerr<<"The file open failed";
        exit(1);
    }
    while(!Input_file.eof())
    {
        Input_file>>items;
        counter++;
    }
    cout<<counter<<" items found!!!"<<endl;
    Input_file.close();
    return 0;
}

[Thomas1965]

!Input_file.eof() does not work as you expect.
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/145699-eof-and-reading-text-files-c/