I'm having trouble traversing an init file. It doesnt look like its even entering the while loop. Here is my function: void intializeRoute( string filename, Route& route ) { ifstream fin; // fin.open( filename.data() ); fin.open (filename.data(), fstream::binary); int i = 0; string currentWord = "test"; cout << currentWord; getchar(); while(fin >> currentWord) { if(currentWord.compare("!=") == 0) if(currentWord.compare("=") == 0) if(currentWord.compare("=!") == 0) { cout << "COMMENT" << endl; string routeComment; getline(fin, routeComment); } else if(currentWord.compare("TradingPost") == 0) { string name; getline(fin, name); name.erase(0, 1); route.addTradingPost(name); cout << "Trading Post Added" << endl; getchar(); } else if(currentWord.compare("Merchant") == 0) { string merchName; int currency; fin >> merchName >> currency; route.addMerchant(merchName, currency); } else if(currentWord.compare("Description") == 0) { string desc; getline( fin, desc ); desc.erase( 0, 1 ); route.addGoodDescription(desc); } else if(currentWord.compare("Good") == 0) { string goodName; int value; fin >> value; getline(fin, goodName); goodName.erase(0, 1); route.addGood(goodName, value); } else if(currentWord.compare("Arrangement") == 0) { string tpDest, type; int cost; fin >> type >> cost; getline(fin, tpDest); tpDest.erase(0, 1); route.addTravArrange(tpDest, type, cost); } else cout << "Bad line in script" << endl; i++; } fin.close(); cout << i; getchar(); } Those extraneous couts and getchars are for testing purposes. Any ideas? Igor

I was just wondering if you live in the Texas DFW area, I have a friend at my school named Igor ( not trying to be mean in any way ) and it dosnt seem that popular of a name, I was wondeirng if you were him ^_^ cause that would be awesome if I knew someone who was into programming and comps like me :) anywho ill look through your code and see what I can do, but I just figured id ask ya this anyways :) understandable if you dont want to tell me anything. GIMPS