Why can't I open a text file with this code? - c++

Question

I'm writing a code to open a file entered by the user and to display the file.
However, no matter how many times I read over my book I can't seem to
tell why my file is still not opening. I even copied someone else's code
that worked and mine still won't open. Someone please help me I've tried
everything.
Here is part of my code, the void function works perfectly fine and so
does the input validation, but when I open the file nothing is displayed
void readFile(int list[], int size)
{
//Identify variables
ifstream inFile;
string fileName;
cout<<"Please enter filename: ";
cin>>fileName;
inFile.open(fileName.c_str());
while(!inFile)
{
cout<<"Invalid file name. ";
inFile.clear();
inFile.ignore(200,'\n');
cout<<"Please enter filename: ";
cin>>fileName;
inFile.open(fileName.c_str());
}
For some reason everything else seems to work fine but the file will not display anything when it is opened, instead the program closes.

Answer 1

That's strange: this code works fine for me.
#include <cstdio>
#include <cstring>
#include <fstream>
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main ()
{
// Identify variables
ifstream inFile;
string fileName, str;
cout << "Please enter filename: ";
cin >> fileName;
inFile.open(fileName.c_str());
while(!inFile) {
cout << "Invalid file name. ";
inFile.clear();
inFile.ignore(200,'\n');
cout << "Please enter filename: ";
cin >> fileName;
inFile.open(fileName.c_str());
}
while (std::getline(inFile, str)) {
cout << str;
}
cout << endl;
return 0;
}
The problem is probably with what you do with inFile after opening it.