Phone Book in C++

Im having trouble loading data to arrays in C++. I have to make a phone book where the first thing you do is click on a button called load and then load two files, one called names.txt the other called phonenumbers.txt, to two parallel arrays. here is what i got so far. I'm so lost, any help will do.
[code]
int index = 0;
ifstream name_database;
name_database.open("F:\\pb\\names.txt");
name_database >> names[];
ifstream phone_database;
phone_database.open("F:\\pb\\phonenumbers.txt");
phone_database >> phone_number[];
for (index=0;index<5;index++)
names[index] = index+1;
[code]
ive declared my arrays globally, im programming in windows using borland

Code:

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  int counter = 0; // counter for array locations
  char names[10][80]; // array of 10 strings each of 79 chars, just for example, yours are global
  string line; // getting each individual line from the file
  ifstream txtfile ("names.txt"); // input stream
  if (txtfile.is_open()) // checking if the file is open
  {
    while (! txtfile.eof() ) // while the stream isn't at the end of the file
    {
      getline (txtfile, line); // getting each line individually
      names[counter] = line; // place the line retrieved from the file into the array
      counter++; // advance the counter
    }
    txtfile.close(); // close the file
  }

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now this is a rough unchecked way of putting input from a stream into an array. now just make this a function, and pass in a string or pointer with the names of the files and you can easily do both files without repeating code.

Thanks for the help, i couldnt get your code to work, i got a Lvalue required error in borland, so i modified it a bit.

Code:

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  int counter_ph = 0;  // counter for array locations
  int counter = 0;  // counter for array locations
  ifstream name_database; // input stream
  name_database.open("names.txt");
  while (! name_database.eof())  // while the stream isn't at the end of the file
  {
    name_database >> names[counter];
    counter++; // advance the counter
  }
  ifstream phone_database;    // input stream
  phone_database.open("phonenumbers.txt");
  while (! phone_database.eof() )  // while the stream isn't at the end of the file
  {
    phone_database >> phone_number[counter_ph];
    counter_ph++;  // advance the counter
  }

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what do you think csl

oops, sorry about that, in my code i needed a string array instead of a char array. regarding your code, why not just make the data retrieval process a function and then call it whenever necessary, passing in a filename and a pointer to the array you want the data stored in. also you have two counters, one of which is un necessary.