So I'm working on a basic C++ payroll program, but I'm having trouble getting the getline() function to work properly. It's supposed to read from a plain text file an employee's ID number, name, ...

I used SendMessage to get the line count of a multiline textbox, since it recognizes word wrap as a new line (and not only crlf). But with EM_GETLINE it needs a pointer to a buffer for lparam. How do ...