for some reason, if the strcmp(buffer,"") condition isn't there, it reads one more line than there is in report.txt. it's like it sees something that cat -n and wc -l don't notice... but that's where strcmp line comes in handy. does anyone know why it would do this?

#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main(){
        char buffer[1024];
        int counter=1;
        ifstream inFile("report.txt");
        ofstream outFile("report2.txt");


        while( ! inFile.eof() ) {       
                inFile.getline(buffer,1024);
                if(strcmp(buffer,"")){
                        outFile <<  counter++ <<") <a href=\"/" << buffer << "\">" << buffer << "</a><br>\n";
                        }
        } 
        inFile.close();
        outFile.close();
        return 0;
}