getline reads one line too much

[xyz7000]

Hi,
so I want to read a text file line by line, so that each row should be stored in a string. The text file looks like this:

name1;phone_number1;address1
name2;phone_number2;address2
...

So I wrote the following function:

void filereader (char * location) {
    string aString;
    ifstream inputstream;
    inputstream.open(location, ios:: in);
    if(inputstream){
        while(!inputstream.eof()){
            getline(inputstream, aString);
            cout <<"getline: \""<< aString << "\"" <<endl; //  testing
        }
    }
    else{
        cout <<"file not found!" <<endl;
    }
    inputstream.close ();
    inputstream.clear ();
}

Unfortunately, the program is reading one line too much and the output is looking like this:

"name1;phone_number1;address1"
"name2;phone_number2;address2"
""

At first I thought it was a "\n" or "\0". That's why I added an if statement ..

if (aString != "\n")
cout << "getline: \"" << aString << "\"" << endl;

.. it doesn't wordk.

How can I avoid this superfluous string?
I'm using Netbeans + Ubuntu

Thanks in advance

[Bazzy]

You need to check for eof after reading aString, the last input operation will always fail

[xyz7000]

Wow that's worked! Thank you very much.