Why won't this code output to a file?

Question

I've debugged my program and the arrays seem to be allocated well. However for some strange and stupid reason, the code doesn't output the arrays into the file.

Please help me spot my bug or such!

#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <string>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

void sRecSort(string  *n, int *s, string *e, int len){
    for (int i = 0; i < len; i++){
     for (int j = i + 1; j < len; j++){
      if (s[j] < s[i]){
       swap(s[i],s[j]);
       swap(e[i],e[j]);
       swap(n[i],n[j]);
      }
     }
    }
}

void printLowestRecord(char inFileName[]){
    string tempSubString = " ";
    string names[12] = {" "};
    int grades[12] = {0};
    string emails[12] = {""};
    int firstSpace = -1;
    int secondSpace = -1;
    ifstream inputMe(inFileName);
    while (!inputMe.eof()){
     for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++){
      getline(inputMe, tempSubString);
      for (int w = 0; w < strlen(tempSubString.c_str()); w++){
       if (tempSubString[w] != ' '){
        continue;
       }
       else{
        if (firstSpace == -1){
         firstSpace = w;
        }
        else if (firstSpace != -1 && secondSpace == -1){
         secondSpace = w;
         names[i] = tempSubString.substr(0, firstSpace);
         grades[i] = atoi((tempSubString.substr(firstSpace + 1, secondSpace - (firstSpace + 1))).c_str());
         emails[i] = tempSubString.substr(secondSpace + 1, tempSubString.length() - (secondSpace + 1));
         break;

        }
       }
      }
      firstSpace = -1;
      secondSpace = -1;
     }
    }
    sRecSort(names, grades, emails, 12);
    inputMe.close();
}

void sortFileRecords(char inFileName[], char outFileName[]){
    ifstream inputFile(inFileName);
    ofstream outputFile(outFileName);
    string tempSubString = " ";
    string names[12] = {" "};
    int grades[12] = {0};
    string emails[12] = {" "};
    int firstSpace = -1;
    int secondSpace = -1;
    while (!inputFile.eof()){
     for (int i = 0; i < 12; i++){
      getline(inputFile, tempSubString);
      for (int w = 0; w < strlen(tempSubString.c_str()); w++){
       if (tempSubString[w] != ' '){
        continue;
       }
       else{
        if (firstSpace == -1){
         firstSpace = w;
        }
        else if (firstSpace != -1 && secondSpace == -1){
         secondSpace = w;
         names[i] = tempSubString.substr(0, firstSpace);
         grades[i] = atoi((tempSubString.substr(firstSpace + 1, secondSpace - (firstSpace + 1))).c_str());
         emails[i] = tempSubString.substr(secondSpace + 1, tempSubString.length() - (secondSpace + 1));
         break;
        }
       }
      }
      firstSpace = -1;
      secondSpace = -1;
     }
    }
    sRecSort(names, grades, emails, 12);

    for (int q = 0; q < 12; q++){
     outputFile << names[q] << " " << grades[q] << " " << emails[q] << endl;
    }
    inputFile.close();
    outputFile.close();
}

int main (int argc, char * const argv[]) {
    printLowestRecord("gradebook.txt");
    sortFileRecords("gradebook.txt", "sortedGradebook.txt");
    return 0;
}

Here's my data:
Sean 80 [email protected]
James 100 [email protected]
Issac 99 [email protected]
Thomas 88 [email protected]
Alice 78 [email protected]
Jone 75 [email protected]
Zach 89 [email protected]
Mark 86 [email protected]
Nick 79 [email protected]
Amy 95 [email protected]
Claire 89 [email protected]
Eve 97 [email protected]

Answer 1

printLowestRecord("gradebook.txt");
sortFileRecords("gradebook.txt", "sortedGradebook.txt");

Maybe you need to specify the full absolute path to the file?

Answer 2

printLowestRecord("gradebook.txt");
sortFileRecords("gradebook.txt", "sortedGradebook.txt");

In those two lines, try writing the complete filepath for the output text. I'm thinking that's the problem.

Answer 3

The code seems to be correct so far, I think your test data is wrong. If I test with this input file:

a 10 c
d 2 f
g 9 i
j 4 l
m 8 o
p 6 r
s 7 u
v 8 x
y 6 a
b 10 d
e 5 g
h 12 j

The output file is like this, which is the expected behaviour:

d 2 f
j 4 l
e 5 g
y 6 a
p 6 r
s 7 u
m 8 o
v 8 x
g 9 i
b 10 d
a 10 c
h 12 j

So either your test data is wrong or there is some additional error handling you have to do (file can't be opened etc.).

By the way, this part of your code

                            else if (firstSpace != -1 && secondSpace == -1){

can be reduced to

                            else {

because you have a break statement in there and set secondSpace back to -1 right after it.

EDIT: Your data also works fine - output is this:

Jone 75 [email protected]
Alice 78 [email protected]
Nick 79 [email protected]
Sean 80 [email protected]
Mark 86 [email protected]
Thomas 88 [email protected]
Zach 89 [email protected]
Claire 89 [email protected]
Amy 95 [email protected]
Eve 97 [email protected]
Issac 99 [email protected]
James 100 [email protected]