[prog] stream eof problem

[Jennifer Davis]

Hi:

	I am working on a coding assignment for class and I am really
stumped on reading an end of file marker.  When I run part of the program,
I get stuck on the last part of the read.  Instead of finding an EOF
marker, the program assumes an error, clears the error and does it again.
I am not used to being stumped as I usually understand the texts, and show up
and pay attention in class.

	I would so appreciate a review of the code.  I will put up the
text file I used for input on my website.  http://www.jenn.ca/file1.txt.
What makes this most confusing is that when I use the bloodshed compiler
for windows, it seems to work.  I use the g++ compiler for Linux.

bash-2.05a$ g++ -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-slackware-linux/2.95.3/specs
gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)

Thanks
	Jennifer Davis
	davi0302 at algonquincollege.com

#include<iostream.h>
#include<fstream.h>
#include<string.h>

struct ITEM {
	char  item_code[8];
	int   quantity_on_hand;
	float unit_selling_price;
	};

void getFileName(char IF[] ,char OF[]);

void main(){

	// variables

	char   inputFile[256], outputFile[256];
	char   exit, clearChar;
	int    filesInputted=0,badRead=0;

	ITEM product[100];

	getFileName(inputFile,outputFile);

	ifstream inFile;	 //These two lines create
	inFile.open(inputFile);	//\ and open the input file.

	if (inFile.good()){

		while (!inFile.eof()){

			inFile >> product[filesInputted].item_code;
			if (!inFile.fail()){ // outer
				inFile >> product[filesInputted].quantity_on_hand;
				if (!inFile.fail()){ // middle
					inFile >> product[filesInputted].unit_selling_price;
					if (!inFile.fail()){ // inner
						filesInputted++;
						cout << filesInputted << " ";
						} //endif - inner
					}// endif - middle
				} else { //endif - outer
				inFile.clear();
				do
					clearChar=inFile.get();
				while (clearChar!='\n');
				} // end if - else

			cout << endl;

			}// end while

     		}// end if part of if-else

		else{

			cout << "Cannot open file " << inFile << endl;
			cout << "Please try again!" << endl << endl;

	} // end if-else

} // end main

void getFileName(char fInputFile[], char fOutputFile[]){

	cout << "Please enter an input file name: ";
	cin  >> fInputFile;

	//cout << "Please enter an output file name: ";
	//cin  >> fOutputFile;

} // end getFileName