Ifstream infinite loop (it never seems to find the marker to stop reading)

Question

A rather quick question... I can't figure out why this loop never ends...

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
 //[city1][city2][distance]

 ifstream sourcefile;

 int data[50][50];



 sourcefile.open("a5.txt");
 if(!sourcefile)
 {
  cout << "file not found" << endl;
  return 1;
 }

 int temp1, temp2, temp3, check;

 char reader;

 check = 0;



 while(reader != 'Q')
 {
  sourcefile >> temp1;
  sourcefile >> temp2;
  sourcefile >> temp3;

  data[temp1][temp2] = temp3;

  cout << "data[" << temp1 << "][" << temp2 << "] = " << temp3 << endl;
  check++;

  if(check > 100)
  {
   cout << "overflow" << endl;
   return 1;
  }

  reader = sourcefile.peek();


 }



 return 0;
}

The input file

1 2 10
1 4 30
1 5 99    
2 3 50    
2 1 70    
3 5 10    
3 1 50    
4 3 20    
4 5 60    
5 2 40   
Q

The output:

data[1][2] = 10
data[1][4] = 30
data[1][5] = 99
data[2][3] = 50
data[2][1] = 70
data[3][5] = 10
data[3][1] = 50
data[4][3] = 20
data[4][5] = 60
data[5][2] = 40
data[0][2] = 40
data[0][2] = 40

...
... (repeats "data[0][2] = 40" about 60 more times)
overflow

Is this a case of peek getting a failbit character?

Answer 1

peek lets you see the next character, which I think in this case is the newline after the distance value. since it's not Q, the loop tries to read another three integer values, fails, and sets the error bit. peek, when there's a failure, returns EOF - so you never get to see the Q.

Answer 2

Try the following before starting to read from the file.

sourcefile >> std::skipws;

It will cause whitespace such as line break to be ignored.