can I get some feedback on why this IF statement is failing me?

[jopeters]

I cant seem to find the problem in this code...

ifstream fin;
    fin.open("C:/Users/Josh/Desktop/TriNode/NumList.txt");
 
    int first;
    fin >> first;
 
    cout << first;
 
    if(first < 10)
    {
        trinode root(first);
        list<int>::iterator currentIt;
 
        while(!fin.eof())
        {
            int temp;
            fin >> temp;
            root.insert_node(temp);
        }
    }
 

when I try to use the trinode "root" or the iterator "currentIt" after this if statement, it keeps giving me errors saying they are not declared, which I would assume means it never gets past the IF(first <10) but If i cout << first right before, its 8.....which is obviously less than 10. If i remove the if statement it will work..but i NEED that statement for later code.

[jopeters]

I just commented out the inside of the IF and replaced it with a cout << "This works"; and for some reason THAT will work, but it wont work when I use the code above...

[jopeters]

alright that was a stupid mistake...nevermind