Recognition of filestream

[Archie243]

Hey all, within a class of mine, I construct a class for reading like this

WordStream::WordStream(std::ifstream& fileStream) : inFile(fileStream){
}

Then I also have two methods, next() and
getContext(const WordOccurrence word, size_t numCharsBefore, size_t numCharsAfter).

The problem is that in the getContext() method, the file I opened isn't recognised. So whenever I try a method such as inFile.get(), I get the "not a class, struct, or union" error.

Any clues? it works fine in the next() method.

[firedraco]

I don't think you can initialize a stream with another stream, the constructor for ifstream is this:

ifstream ( );
ifstream ( const char * filename, ios_base::openmode mode = ios_base::in );

I would pass the name of the file rather then a stream (and to me it would be easier anyway).

[helios]

It sounds like you didn't declare inFile in the first place.
In any case, fstream's copy constructor is private, so you can't do that intialization.