external file reads

[teddarr]

I'm having trouble reading the first 2 lines of data in an external file.

I am supposed to use a while loop to read the first 2 lines of an external file that contains several random integers. I think I need 2 loops. I also think it is best not to reinitialize the variables 'sum' and 'num' before the second loop executes.

The overall goal is to read the integers on the 1st 2 lines and compute their sum.

Here's the code I have so far: Please help!!



// read file and compute the average of all integers on the first 2 lines

inFile.open("DA TFILE1"); //open DATFILE1.TXT

char inchar = ' '; //assigns inchar to a blank character
sum = num = avg = 0;
count = 1;

inFile>>num;
inFile.get(inch ar);
while(inchar !='\n') //this loop is supposed to get the data from the
{ //1st line of data and compute a sum
inFile>>num;
count++;
sum = sum + num;
inFile.get(inch ar);
}

while(inchar !='\n') //this loop is supposed to get the data from
{ //the 2nd line of data and compute the sum
inFile>>num;
count++; //NOT GETTING 2nd LINE OF DATA
sum = sum + num;
}

avg = sum/count;
cout<<"The average of the numbers in the 1st 2 lines of data is: "
<<avg<<endl<<en dl;
outFile<<"The average of the numbers in the 1st 2 lines of data is: "
<<avg<<endl<<en dl;
inFile.close(); //closes the file for the next calculation
inFile.clear();

[D_C]

You only need one loop.

count = 0;
while(count < 2)
{
  inFile>>num;
  inFile.get(inchar);

  if(inchar !='\n')
    sum += num;
  else
  {
    count++;
    // is inFile.get(inchar) necessary for '\r' ?
  }
}

[teddarr]

Thanks for the help. I can work with this.