Question

I can’t get the pointer back to zero so i can go through the data again after the echo.

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

using namespace std;

int main()

{
    ifstream infile;

    infile.open ("scores.txt" , ifstream::in);

    int ch = infile.get();
    string lastname;
    char gender= ' ';
    string collegetype;
    float score=0;
    float scoreMALE=0;
    float scoreFEMALE=0;
    int countMALE=0;
    int countFEMALE=0;

    while ( !infile.eof())
    {

          cout << (char) ch;
           ch = infile.get();
    }

    infile.seekg(0,ios::beg);
    while ( !infile.eof())
    {
    infile>>lastname>>gender>>collegetype>>score;
    if(gender == 'm')
          {
                scoreMALE = scoreMALE + score;
                     countMALE++;   
          }         

    else if (gender == 'f')
          {
                  scoreFEMALE = score;
                  countFEMALE++;
          }
    }

  cout<<"\n\n\n The total Female Scores is"<<countFEMALE<<"\n\n\n The total of the male scores is"<<countMALE; // Checking to see if file works


  infile.close();

  cout<<"Press <Enter> to Exit";
   cin.ignore();
   cin.get();      
   return 0;                   
}

here’s the input file:

Bailey M CC 68
Harrison F CC 71
Grant M UN 75
Peterson F UN 69
Hsu M UN 79
Bowles M CC 75
Anderson F UN 64
Nguyen F CC 68
Sharp F CC 75
Jones M UN 75
McMillan F UN 80
Gabriel F UN 62

Answer 1

Adding the infile.clear() above the infile.seekg(0,ios::beg), causes the code to iterate through the second loop here (as Kerreck-SB suggested) .

The reason your scores would still be 0 after doing this is due to the character comparison used being of the incorrect case. E.g. ‘f’ and ‘m’ instead of the ‘F’ and ‘M’ in your input file.