Opening a file

[Univcplus]

I am trying to open and display a file and I cant figure out why it wont open the file. It just displays the exit "Fail"

   ifstream _wildeq;
    _wildeq.open("wildlifeequations.txt");
    if(!_wildeq.is_open());
    cout<<"Fail"<<endl;

    string read;
if(_wildeq.is_open())
{
while(_wildeq.good())
getline(_wldlifes, read);
cout<<read<<endl;


}

[Chibiken]

Did you make sure the file "wildlifeequations.txt" existed?

[48T7M4Gy]

If the file exists and you can't open it then it is probably a good bet it is in the wrong directory and/or the path to it needs to be setup.

Also why test whether the file is open twice when once should be enough.

[Univcplus]

That's the issue I'm having. It is in the correct directory.
The only reason I have it to where it checks if its open twice is due to instructions.

[48T7M4Gy]

That's the issue I'm having.

What issue?

It is in the correct directory.

Doesn't sound like it to me. That is, if your program runs.

The only reason I have it to where it checks if its open twice is due to instructions.
Try it as below and ignore the bad instructions for a while.

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files/

Try the samples here as a model.

It might be a good idea if you post a short but complete piece of runnable code with sample text file of a couple of lines.

[48T7M4Gy]

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    ifstream _wildeq;
    _wildeq.open("data.txt");
    if(!_wildeq.is_open())
        cout << "Fail" << endl;
    else
    {
        string read;
        
        while(_wildeq.good() )
        {
            getline(_wildeq, read);
            cout << read;
        }
    }
    
    return 0;
}