Help Please with my While Loop

[charmeda103]

I working on a program and I using a while loop. My while loop has to read information from a file. the file contains three lines with names, and a bunch of numbers and dates.

the problem that I am having is that my the program is not reading the dates

which are month/day/year
how can i fix that to make the dates apear.
heres is what i have:

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
#include <cmath>



using namespace std;

int main()
{


int month;
int day;
int year;
char junkChar;

string sampleInput;

ifstream inFile;
inFile.open("F:\\people.txt");



while(!inFile.eof())
{


inFile>> sampleInput;
getline(inFile,sampleInput,'\n');



if ( sampleInput=="")
{
cout << endl;


}
else
cout << sampleInput << endl;



}
cout << endl;


inFile.close();

return 0;
}

[boxfish]

It's not working because of these two lines:

inFile>> sampleInput;
getline(inFile,sampleInput,'\n');
 

You're reading the date into sampleInput with the >> operator, and then reading what's left of the line (possibly nothing) right over it with getline, erasing the date. If you want the whole line to be read, including whitespace characters, use only getline. If you want to allow multiple dates per line, and to read in anything separated by whitespace as separate dates, use only >>. If you want to read in only one date per line without whitespace and ignore the rest of the line, use >> and then getline ino a dummy string:

inFile>> sampleInput;
getline(restOfLine,sampleInput,'\n');
 

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