c++ - C++ reading from .txt file

Question

I have a strange problem that seems to happen when I pass an ifstream by reference.

In my main method, I have created an ifstream, and then I pass it to this read method by reference:

    void ArrayStorage::read(ifstream& fin)
{
    if (fin.is_open())
    {
        string input;
        getline(fin, input, '\n');
    }
    else
    {
    }
}

This should work fine, however, I'm getting the following message in the value of the ifstream:

• fin {_Filebuffer={_Set_eback=0xcccccccc _Set_egptr=0xcccccccc ...} } std::basic_ifstream > &

Anyone have any ideas?

EDIT: Code that calls the method:

ifstream fin1("data.txt");
ofstream out1("1-In-SortedRead.txt");

if(!fin1.is_open()) 
{
    cout << "FAIL" << endl;
    return 1;
}

ArrayStorage arrayStorage1;

// read in values into data structure
arrayStorage1.read(fin1);