How to stop a loop before it gets to the last one

[nuken]

This loop goes through all the lines in the file but there are only six lines and it has seven outputs

[Oralloy]

Well, try using a loop counter in addition to your eof condition:

int count = 1;
while ( (count < 7) && !cin.eof() )
{
  count ++;
. . .

[nuken]

that would work but there could be more or less than 7 in the file.

[Oralloy]

So what is the alternate terminiation condition?

If you know how to detect the state, you can either detect at the top of the file, or you can insert this code following line 25 of your example:

     if (cin.eof())
        break;

Luck!

[nuken]

Parse error on line 55: break statements are only allowed within switch statements;
breaking out of a loop is not supported.

I added that and it gave me this error.

[Oralloy]

You're using C#, aren't you?

Ok, so you need to build a guard around the while loop at line 26. You can do it the easy way and write:

        while ( (!cin.eof()) && (count <= scores_in_section) ) 

Or you can guard the whole thing with an "if" statement:

        if (!cin.eof())
        {
          while ( count <= scores_in_section ) 
          {
          . . .
          }
        }
 

[nuken]

Actually im using C++, but heres the whole code because i think the problem is the first if statement is set to 0at the end and thats why it outputs that seventh one:

[Oralloy]

After line 37, try inserting

if (!cin.eof()) {

And after line 106 insert

}

That should effectively mask out the section logic when EOF occurs on input.

[nuken]

Dude thankyou soo much!!! You are awesome

[Oralloy]

No worries, nuken. Just be sure to help others when you can.

Luck!