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[Ollivander]

[jjordan33]

Can you show us some of the text file?

[Enoizat]

I'm trying to get the code to work regardless of how many rows or columns are in the text file.

If I may, that seems an unnecessary effort: you know how many columns are there in the file, i.e. 4.

Anyway, I don't think you should use separate variables. I think you'd do better by std::vectors, std::arrays or C-style arrays.

But you need to output also "the percentage of the total votes received", so a single variables to store the sum of all votes could be taken into consideration.

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To check if a stream has opened successfully, you can verify its status simply by:

    std::ifstream infile("votesimple.txt");
    if (!infile) {  // if infile didn't opened correctly
        // ...
    }