Efficient C++ Data Read/Write Program for Employee Pay Increase Calculation

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The discussion centers on a C++ program designed to calculate and write employee pay increases to a file. The user encountered issues where the pay increase percentages for the second and third employees were incorrectly assigned, resulting in duplicated values. The problem was resolved by rewriting the input file, which corrected a typo that was causing the errors in data processing. This highlights the importance of careful data handling and debugging in programming.

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Alright, so basically I'm writing a program that will copy three people's first and last name, current pay, and pay increase %. Then, write it to a file that gives their name, and new pay after the increase has been applied to the current pay. When I launch the program, then open the output file to see if it worked, person one works fine, then, for person two, it gives the name, and pay increase, but with person one's %. Then person three is just a copy of person two.

Is there anything I need to add in between each person's code to help fix this? I would show my code but I have no idea how to copy it from pico(I'm using telnet with my school). So if anyone would like to see the code and knows how to do that, I'll happily show the code.
 
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okay nevermind I figured it out, I just had to re-write the input file because I guess I had a typo
 

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