I have a variable which holds a score for a game.

My variable is accessible and correct outside of an if statement but not inside as shown below

score is declared at the top of the main.cpp and calculated in the display function which also contains the code below

cout << score << endl; //works
    if(!justFinished){
        cout << score << endl; // doesn't work prints a large negative number
        endTime = time(NULL);
        ifstream highscoreFile;
        highscoreFile.open("highscores.txt");
        if(highscoreFile.good()){

            highscoreFile.close();
        }else{
            std::ofstream outfile ("highscores.txt");
            cout << score << endl;
            outfile << score << std::endl;

            outfile.close();
        }

        justFinished = true;
    }
    cout << score << endl;//works