Question

I need to read a file and turn it into a string array but when it reads the file it doesn’t put anything in the array.
Here’s my current code:

string code[200];
string name;
int lines;
string filename;
int readfile(){
  ifstream inFile;
  int counter = 0;
  cout << "Which file would you like to open?\n";
  cin >> filename;
  countlines();//counts total lines of file
  inFile.open(filename);
  if(inFile.fail())
  {
    cout << "File did not open correctly, please check it\n";
    system("pause");
    exit(0);
    //return 1;
  }
  inFile >> name;
  for (int i=0;i < lines; i++)
  {
    inFile >> code[i];
    if (!inFile)
      cout << "Error" << endl;
    break;
  }
  inFile.close();
  cout << "Now opened: " << name << endl;
  return 0;
}

Answer 1

#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

vector<string> lines;

bool readFile(string filename){
    ifstream file;
    string line;

    file.open(filename.c_str());

    if(!file.is_open()){
        return false;
    }

    while (getline(file, line)) {
        lines.push_back(line);
    }

    return true;
}


int main(){
    readFile("test.txt");

    for(int i = 0; i < lines.size(); ++i){
        cout << lines[i] << endl;
    }

    return 0;
}