[C++] Switch statement to open a text file

So depending on the game chosen a different text file should open up. The compiler has serious beef with this (the rest of the code is unneccesary to understand the problem).

I was wandering if anyone knew of a way around this to get it to compile as there is no way both things can be called so there shouldn't be a clash really.

switch(game)
{
case 1: ifstream myFile("level1.txt"); countto = 25; break;
case 2: ifstream myFile("level2.txt"); countto = 36; break;
}

Pre-thanks for any help given

Scoping issues, try:

string directory = "";

switch(game)
{
case 1: directory = "level1.txt"; countto = 25; break;
case 2: directory = "level2.txt"; countto = 36; break;
default: cout << "Level file doesn't exist" << endl; break;
}

ifstream myFile(directory);

Thanks Alex that worked a treat , I had a similar problem with switches in one of the labs and I get why it didn't work now

No problem Do you understand why your code didn't work, because this mistake is easy to make?

I think it's because when c++ compiles it doesn't skip over initialisers in switch statements so even though logically it should only open one - the compiler sees it as trying to open two seperate ones?