ifstream wont read integers, or anything else for that matter - c++

Question

I am using xcode. I compile fine and then once it runs it opens the file successfully and then reads two values but the values do not go into the variable, as such it then skips the for loop and closes the file and returns from main.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
//salesman struct
struct Salesman
{
char firstname[64];
char lastname[64];
char middleinitial[1];
int averagecents;
int totalcents;
};
int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
//setup variables
const char* inputFilename = "TheSales.txt";
int numberPeople = 0, weeksToHandlePerPerson = 0;
int workweeklength = 5;
int totalcents = 0;
//open file
std::ifstream fileHandle;
fileHandle.open(inputFilename, std::ios::in | std::ios::app);
if(!fileHandle)
perror ( "Stream Failed to open because: " );
fileHandle >> numberPeople; <----- does not get value
fileHandle >> weeksToHandlePerPerson; <----- does not get value
//do calculations
for ( int i = 0; i < numberPeople; ++i ) <---- this gets skipped
{
Salesman nextsalesman;
fileHandle >> nextsalesman.firstname;
fileHandle >> nextsalesman.middleinitial;
fileHandle >> nextsalesman.lastname;
float t1, t2, t3, t4, t5;
fileHandle >> t1 >> t2 >> t3 >> t4 >> t5;
nextsalesman.totalcents = 100 * ( t1 + t2 + t3 + t4 + t5 );
nextsalesman.averagecents = nextsalesman.totalcents / workweeklength;
totalcents += nextsalesman.totalcents;
//print calculations calculateNumbers()
std::cout << "salesman " << i << " total: $" << nextsalesman.totalcents / 100 << "." << nextsalesman.totalcents % 100
<< " and average $" << nextsalesman.averagecents / 100 << "." << nextsalesman.averagecents % 100 << std::endl;
int averagecents = totalcents / ( numberPeople * weeksToHandlePerPerson );
std::cout << "total for all: " << totalcents / 100 << "." << totalcents % 100 << " and average for all $" <<
averagecents / 100 << "." << averagecents % 100 << std::endl;
}
fileHandle.close(); <---- this works
return 0; <---- then we return main.
}
File:
3
2
firstName1 A lastName1
20.00 25.00 30.90 40.00 55.50
20.00 25.00 30.90 40.00 55.50
firstname2 B lastName2
30.00 24.00 45.00 67.00 65.50
56.90 87.00 43.50 56.98 55.40
firstName3 C lastName3
62.00 34.50 12.50 34.00 34.90
70.00 80.00 90.00 65.00 39.00
where first int is number of employees and second is number of weeks and each week is 5 days.
Actual output:
Expected output:
(fake output but expected form)
salesman1 total: 23424 avg: 3654
salesman2 total: 234 avg: 1654
salesman3 total: 424 avg: 364.
total for all: 5345683 and average for all: 34564564
when the program used to work the output was correct.

Answer 1

Your code is fine and works for me.
Are you using a text editor that writes out a unicode Byte Order Marker at the start of TheSales.txt? If so, then it will confuse your program.
You can use notepad++ to strip the BOM, as described here:
http://www.larshaendler.com/2015/01/20/remove-bom-with-notepad/
(TextWrangler on OSX might be a good alternative)