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IF statement for multiple choice question

trescool07 (5)
I am a beginner, learning C++ on my own as part of an extra curricular activity.
I am writing this code that is intended to ask the user for a preferred movie genre, load and read through a list of movie titles in a text file, and display a random movie title at the end. However I am having trouble with my second IF statement. When ran, it won't give me an error, it will simply follow with "Press any key to continue.." What is wrong? This is how my code looks like

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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <ctime>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

int main ()
{
    int number;

    cout << "\n";
    cout << "Welcome!\n";
    cout << "\n";
    cout << "What kind of movie are you looking for? \n";
    cout << "\n";
    cout << "1)Romance \n2)Comedy \n3)Action \n4)Drama \n5)Classic \n6)Sci-Fi \n ";
    cout << "\n";
    cout << "Pick a number: ";
    cin >> number;
    cout << "\n";

    if (number == 1)
    {
        string getcontent;
        ifstream openfile ("romance.txt");
        if (openfile.is_open())
        {
        getline (openfile, getcontent);
        cout << getcontent << endl;
        }

    if (number == 2)
    {
        string getcontent;
        ifstream openfile ("comedy.txt");
        if (openfile.is_open())
        {
        getline (openfile, getcontent);
        cout << getcontent << endl;
        }
    }
    }

   return 0; 
}

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DesiredNote (238)
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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <ctime>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

int main ()
{
    int number;

    cout << "\n";
    cout << "Welcome!\n";
    cout << "\n";
    cout << "What kind of movie are you looking for? \n";
    cout << "\n";
    cout << "1)Romance \n2)Comedy \n3)Action \n4)Drama \n5)Classic \n6)Sci-Fi \n ";
    cout << "\n";
    cout << "Pick a number: ";
    cin >> number;
    cout << "\n";

    if (number == 1)
    {

    }

    if (number == 2)
    {

    }
    }
    return 0;
}

The ending bracket for the first if statement is after the second if statement. Was this intentional?
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trescool07 (5)
Geez! I still have to learn to look at my code carefully!!! That's probably today's most important lesson. Thanks man!
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