Access Violation Violation Location With Low Numbers - c++

Question

I'm working on an assignment for school. The code is supposed to read form a file and create an array, then sort the values of the array to output certain info. It works just fine as long as I have 3+ lines of info in the file. If not, I get the following error:
First-chance exception at 0x01305876 in Homework11.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0xcd71b288.
Unhandled exception at 0x01305876 in Homework11.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0xcd71b288.
I can't figure out why, any help would be appreciated. Here's the code:
#include <iostream> //calls the information needed
#include <iomanip>
#include <algorithm>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std; //sets all unmarked commands to std::
const int ARRSIZE = 1000;
struct Student
{
string firstName;
string lastName;
string id, temp;
double gpa;
};
int readArray(ifstream& ifile, Student arr[]);
void swapElements(Student arr[], int i, int j);
void sortArray(Student arr[], int numberInTheArray);
int main()
{ // Declares the needed variables
double sought, min, max;
int i, ival, returnvar, count = 0, mincount, maxcount;
string filename;
ifstream ifile;
Student arr[ARRSIZE];
cout << "Input File Name: ";//requesting the file name
cin >> filename;
ifile.open(filename.c_str());//opening the file
if (!ifile)//checking if it opened or not
{
cout << endl << "That file does not exist!" << endl;//informing the user it did
return 1;//not open and returning 1
}
cout << "Which number do you want to return? ";//requesting the desired number
cin >> ival;
i = ival - 1;
cout << endl;
returnvar = readArray(ifile, arr);
min = arr[0].gpa;
max = arr[0].gpa;
sought = arr[0].gpa;
while (count < returnvar)
{
if (arr[count].gpa < min)
{
min = arr[count].gpa;
mincount = count;
}
if (arr[count].gpa > max)
{
max = arr[count].gpa;
maxcount = count;
}
if (count == i)
{
sought = arr[count].gpa;
}
count++;
}
if (count == 0)
{
cout << "The file is empty!" << endl;
return 1;
}
cout << "Before Sort:" << endl;
cout << " Min GPA is " << min << " for " << arr[mincount].lastName << "." << endl;
cout << " Max GPA is " << max << " for " << arr[maxcount].lastName << "." << endl;
if (returnvar < ARRSIZE)
{
cout << " WARNING: Only " << returnvar << " numbers were read into the array!" << endl;
}
if (i >= returnvar)
{
cout << " There aren't that many numbers in the array!" << endl << endl;
}
else if (i > ARRSIZE)
{
cout << " " << i << " is bigger than " << ARRSIZE << "!" << endl << endl;
}
else if (i < returnvar)
{
cout << " Value " << ival << " is " << sought << " for " << arr[i].lastName << "." << endl << endl;
}
//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
sortArray(arr, returnvar);
count = 0;
while (count < returnvar)
{
if (arr[count].gpa < min)
{
min = arr[count].gpa;
mincount = count;
}
if (arr[count].gpa > max)
{
max = arr[count].gpa;
maxcount = count;
}
if (count == i)
{
sought = arr[count].gpa;
}
count++;
}
cout << "After Sort:" << endl;
cout << " Array[0] GPA is " << min << " for " << arr[0].lastName << "." << endl;
cout << " Array[" << (returnvar - 1) << "] GPA is " << max << " for " << arr[(returnvar - 1)].lastName << "." << endl;
if (returnvar < ARRSIZE)
{
cout << " WARNING: Only " << returnvar << " numbers were read into the array!" << endl;
}
if (i >= returnvar)
{
cout << " There aren't that many numbers in the array!" << endl << endl;
}
else if (i > ARRSIZE)
{
cout << " " << i << " is bigger than " << ARRSIZE << "!" << endl << endl;
}
else if (i < returnvar)
{
cout << " Value " << ival << " is " << sought << " for " << arr[i].lastName << "." << endl << endl;
}
return 0;
}
int readArray(ifstream& ifile, Student arr[])
{
int counter = 0;
while ((ifile) && (counter <= ARRSIZE))
{
ifile >> arr[counter].firstName;
ifile >> arr[counter].lastName;
ifile >> arr[counter].id;
ifile >> arr[counter].gpa;
counter++;
}
return (counter - 1);
}
void sortArray(Student arr[], int numberInTheArray)
{
for (int i = 0 ; i < numberInTheArray - 1; i++)
{
for (int j = 0 ; j < numberInTheArray - 1; j++)
{
if ( arr[j].gpa > arr[j + 1].gpa)
{
swapElements(arr, j, j+1);
}
}
}
}
void swapElements(Student arr[], int i, int j)
{
Student temp;
temp = arr[i];
arr[i] = arr[j];
arr[j] = temp;
}
Please ignore the insanity and comments. Like I said, for an entry level course.

Answer 1

Try replacing counter <= ARRSIZE with counter < ARRSIZE (a rule of thumb in C is: never use <= in operations related to container sizes).
EDIT: also in your main(), you must check that i < ARRSIZE (equivalently, return error if i >= ARRSIZE). At present you seem to accept the case i == ARRSIZE, which is also wrong. And finally, readArray should return counter (that is, one more than the last written index).