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copied!<p>It looks like you pretty much have all the code you need already! I copied your code and compiled it with some changes to read the SalesPeople in from a file in a loop. I will include the changes below, but since this is for your homework, you may just want to read and think about the following hints before looking at the code.</p> <ul> <li><p>For reading the SalesPeople in a loop, I would recommend that you take a look at this <a href="http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/input-output.html#faq-15.2" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FAQ</a>. It has an example of almost exactly what you need. <a href="http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/input-output.html#faq-15.4" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FAQ 15.4</a> will also help you, I believe.</p></li> <li><p>For your question on how to handle the extra empty line when reading from the file, check out this <a href="http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/manipulators/ws/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link</a>. You can very simply extract whitespace this way.</p></li> <li><p>As jfclavette suggested, I would recommend looking into <a href="http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/string/getline/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">std::getline</a> for reading in the SalesPerson's full name, since you need everything on that line into one string.</p></li> </ul> <p>I have one question for you, though: what about the employeeID? I notice that it is being ignored in your sample code. Is that on purpose?</p> <p>And now, if you still need help, you can check out the code I wrote to get this to work:</p> <pre><code>istream &operator>>(istream &stream, SalesPeople &salesppl) { //stream >> salesppl.fullname; getline(stream, salesppl.fullname); stream >> salesppl.startYear; stream >> salesppl.status; // not sure how to read that empty extra line here ? stream >> ws; return stream; } while(read >> employee) { // cout << employee; // to verify the input, uncomment this line employees.push_back(employee); } </code></pre> <p>Also, as jfclavette suggested, it may not be a bad idea to add some input validation (check the stream status after reading from it and verify that it is still good). Although I would recommend using the while() loop for the reasons stated in <a href="http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/input-output.html#faq-15.5" rel="nofollow noreferrer">FAQ 15.5</a>.</p>

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