Trouble with while(getline(file, str))

[wh1t3crayon]

void parseFile(std::ifstream &file, std::string &string){
    std::ifstream file;
    file.open("text.txt");
    if(file.is_open()){
        std::string str = "";
        while(std::getline(file, str)){
            if(str == string){
                //do something, but the debugger never makes it here
            }  
        }
    }
}

I'm trying to iterate through each line of a file, but the code doesn't seem to be entering the while statement. I've placed a breakpoint on line 7 and the breakpoint is never even hit, yet the breakpoint on line 6 is hit, implying that the file is indeed open and working.

Edit: I know that it might seem likely that my file is simply empty or corrupt, so I'm just making it known that the file does indeed have content, and I have been successful in reading some elements from the file elsewhere in the program, but for some reason this loop is not working.

[wh1t3crayon]

Well yes that definitely needed to be fixed lol. I was just typing into the window directly, not copying and pasting from my actual code. I fixed it in the example so as not to cause any more confusion.

So the original problem still stands.

[wh1t3crayon]

I actually sort of answered it myself. Since I had already parsed the file once, I had to clear the ifstream's flags and then set the marker to the beginning of the file.

file.clear();
file.seekg(file.beg);