why won't this read my file?

[PinheadLarry]

everytime I try to run this code I get some weird error, saying unhandled exception at so and so memory address.

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;



int main(){
	
	ifstream config("C:/test/config.txt");
	string Aconfig[3];
	int counter = 0;
	while(!config.eof()){
		getline(config,Aconfig[counter]);
		cout << Aconfig[counter] << endl;
		counter++;
	}

	char y;
	cin >> y;
	return 0;
}

I'm completely stumped by this, any help is appreciated.

[bartoli]

Have you checked that you don't read more than 3 lines, which would cause a bufffer overflow?

[PinheadLarry]

oh wow, I'm stupid. My array that I was storing it in wasn't big enough......

is there any way to check how many lines the file is, and put that as the array size?

[bartoli]

Not without parsing the whole file first. But you can use a vector of strings, which will resize itself as you add strings to it