Hello guys. I have developed a program which is supposed to read several times from the same file. I have used clear() and seekg() but nothing works. When the file gets open for the second time the program doesn't read anything from it. I would appreciate any suggestions. Here is the code:

case 1: sm = new SearchingMap();
m = sm;
(*m).initializeGraph();
nodes.open("..\\location.txt");
if (nodes.fail ())
 {
	 cerr << "*** ERROR: Cannot open file" ;
	 return EXIT_FAILURE;	// failure return
 }
nodes.seekg(0, ios::beg);
while(nodes >> val >> delimiter && i < 10)
{
	getline(nodes, descr);		
	(*m).inputVertex(val, descr, i);
	i++;
}
nodes.close();
nodes.clear();
edges.open("..\\edge.txt");
if (edges.fail ())
 {
	 cerr << "*** ERROR: Cannot open file" ;
	 return EXIT_FAILURE;	// failure return
 }
edges.seekg(0, ios::beg);
while(edges >> row >> delimiter >> val >> delimiter && j < 50)
{
	getline(edges, descr,':');	
	edges >> col;
	(*m).inputEdge(val, descr, j);
	(*m).inputGraph(row - 1, col - 1, descr);
	j++;
}
edges.close();
edges.clear();
cout << "The possible locations you can choose from are:\n\n";
(*m).printVertex();
cout << endl;
cin.ignore(INT_MAX,'\n');
while(1)
{
	cout << "Enter your initial position: ";
	getline(cin, init);
	if((*m).searchGraph(init) == -1)
	{
		cin.clear();
        cin.ignore(INT_MAX,'\n');
		continue;
	}
	break;
}

So, what doesn't work? edges.open(); ? Double check the filepath please, hehe. Code looks okay, you won't need to clear it, unless errors occurred and you've recovered from them (or just want to reset them of course).

So, what doesn't work? edges.open(); ? Double check the filepath please, hehe. Code looks okay, you won't need to clear it, unless errors occurred and you've recovered from them (or just want to reset them of course).

You were right. I had forgotten to reset i and j. Thanks

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