Ifstream problem with displaying lines.

[cullenT]

I am trying to display the contents of each file at a time with this function, but the problem is it is displaying numberOfLines correctly but they are all blank, so something is happening that it cannot read the lines, I dont know :). Can somebody please help me..

void WordSearch::openInFile(ifstream& fin, int index)
{
    char a[120];
    string *lines;
    int numOfLines;
    
	fin.open(string(directory+"\\"+files[index]).c_str()); 
    if (fin.fail( ))
    {
        cerr << "Input file opening failed.\n";
        //cout << directory << "\\" << files[index] << endl;  ERROR CHECKING
        //exit(1);
    }
    else
    {
        cout << files[index] << " Opened." << endl;
        numOfLines = getNumofLines(fin);
        lines = new string[numOfLines];
        
       	for (int i = 0;i<numOfLines;i++)
        {
    		fin.getline(a,120);
    		lines[i] = a;
    		cout << lines[i] << endl;
	    }
    }
        
    //cout << endl << index << endl;   ERROR CHECKING
}

I am using this to call the previous function.

int WordSearch::stringSearch()
{
    for(unsigned int i = 2; i < files.size();i++)
    {
        ifstream fins;
        openInFile(fins, i);
        
        fins.close();
        fins.clear();
    }
    
}

Thank you in advanced, I know everybody here knows what to do, so I have faith in getting help :)

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