I am trying to write a function that opens a csv path in ifstream and then parse it into a course object that I can then insert into a BST. For some reason that I haven’t figured out yet, the program fails to open the csv and returns before ever hitting the rest of the code. Code below:

  void loadBids(string csvPath, BinarySearchTree* bst) {
    ifstream inputFile;
    inputFile.open(csvPath);
    string inputLine;
    if (!inputFile.is_open()) {
    cout << "Error reading file" << endl;
    return;
    }
    while (getline(inputFile, inputLine))
    {
    string temp1, temp2, temp3, temp4;
    int slot = 0;
    stringstream tempString(inputLine);
    getline(tempString, temp1, ',');
    getline(tempString, temp2, ',');
    getline(tempString, temp3, ',');
    getline(tempString, temp4, ',');

        if (temp1 == "" || temp2 == "") {

I have tried:

 ifstream inputFile(csvPath)

    inputFile.open(csvPath,ios::in)

as well as shifting the conditional to a if file is open vice not open.

I am kinda at a loss at this point Any help would be appreciated.