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

int main()
{
    int num_of_lines = 0;
    int count_2 = 0;
    fstream file;
    string input;
    string string_array[10];
    file.open("numbers.txt", ios::in);

    //this while loop is simply used to find the # of lines
 in the file.
    //its going to go getline all the lines till it hits a flag hopefuly eof.
        getline(file, input);
        while (file)
        {
            cout << input << endl;
            getline(file, input);
            num_of_lines++;
        }

        //clear the eof / other tags
        file.clear();
        //reset position to the start of the file
        file.seekg(0L, ios::beg);
        //now i know how many lines in the file, this loop does getline untill
        //it reaches the line we wish to start saving (total lines - the number of lines we want)
        for (int count = 0; count < (num_of_lines - 4); count++)
        {
            //its count_2 not count
            count_2++;  //used in the next loop to ge the last lines.
            getline(file, input);
        }
        int i = 0; // used in this next sectin to incremeptn string_array subscript to hold values.
        //now we know how many lines total in the file, and getline is
        //last loop to now collect the lines we wanted. count_2 is = to the position we start from.
        // and num_of_lines is the total amount of lines so we just got the lines inbetween left.
        for(count_2; count_2 < num_of_lines; count_2++)
        {
            getline(file, input);
            string_array[i++] = input;  //the lines inbetween count_2 and the num_of_lines is saved in string array.
        }

    cout << "SWEET\n"; //omg it worked!
    //printing contents of the string array.
    for (auto k : string_array)
    {
        cout << k << endl;
    }
    cout << "\nNumber of lines = " << num_of_lines << endl;

    file.close();
}