ifstream not reading EOF character

Question

I am creating a program (In C++) that takes an ASCII file and reads a few values from each line until it reaches the end of the file. I am using ifstream to re

Answer 1

Do not do it like that.

EOF is not the only thing you'll encounter while reading. There's a bunch of errors you might get, and so the best is to simply test the stream itself:

while(currentfile)
{
    // read somehow
}

If you're reading lines, then, the simplest way is:

std::string line;
while(std::getline(currentfile, line))
{
    // use line
}