getting text from a file into a char type array

[r6racer]

trying to pull text from our teachers text file but having issues doing so. its a char type. getline wont work, i tried making a temp array to pull the info as a string and i couldnt get that to work either. i was trying to use strcopy as well and couldnt get it to work either. i must be doing something wrong any hints or suggestions ive been stuck on this part for a whillllee

also im referring to the 2nd for loop. everything else works fine.

  void fillArray(string n[], char eid[][6], double w[], int us[], int size){
ifstream file;


file.open("C:\\classdata\\salesdata.txt");

    for (int i=0; i< 20; i++){
        getline(file, n[i]);
    }

    for (int i =0; i < 20; i++){
        strcopy(eid[i], file, 6)
    }

the text file is with 20 entries for each type
John. B
Guy. A
...
a1253
a2736
b8293
...
16.96
16.96
19.21

[r6racer]

i just went ahead and did this... it makes it into a two dimnesional array which will cause other issues with my other functions i think? I dont think im suppose to turn it into a two dim array but then again arent all char arrays two dim? its programming one and i dont know.

for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++){
for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++){
file >> eid[i][j];
}
}

when i sent it to the display function.... lol feel like its a real bootleg way to do it

for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++){

cout << n[i] << " " << eid[i][0] << eid[i][1] << eid[i][2] << eid[i][3] << eid[i][4] << " " << w[i] << " " << us[i] << endl;

}