Opening and closing files...

[frennanfilms]

Ok, so I have an assignment to open 1 file, get the data, close it, then open 2 more files and pull the data from those as well.

my first file opens perfectly fine,but then the second and third files show a bunch of nonsense that was entered into my variables...

is there anything wrong with my code that anyone can notice?

	inData.open("store1.txt");

	inData >> store1info1 >> store1info2 >> store1info3 >> store1info4 >>
		store1info5 >> store1info6;

	inData.close();

	inData.open("store2.txt");

	inData >> store2info1 >> store2info2 >> store2info3 >> store2info4 >>
		store2info5 >> store2info6;

	inData.close();

I've defined the fstream as inData already, and it works fine, the first file opens correctly, but the second is the one that is having issues.

[Duthomhas]

I suspect that the fail bit is being set from the first file. (Does store1info6 have the correct value?)

You can fix it by using:

inData.close();
inData.clear();

but a better way would be to use a separate file stream object for each file:

{
    ifstream inData( "store1.txt" );
    inData >> store1info1 >> ...;
}
{
    ifstream inData( "store2.txt" );
    inData >> ...;
}

The best way, however, would be to make yourself a function that gets the info.

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

struct StoreInfo
{
    int    number;
    string manager_surname;
    double daily_sales;
    ...
};

StoreInfo readStoreInfo( const string filename )
{
    StoreInfo result;
    ifstream inData( filename.c_str() );
    inData >> result.number
           >> result.manager_surname
           >> result.daily_sales
    ...
    return result;
}

int main()
{
    vector<StoreInfo> stores;

    for (int i=1; i<=3; i++)
      stores.push_back( readStoreInfo( string( "store" ) +(char)(i +'0') +".txt" ) );
    ...
}

Hope this helps.