Parsing file for spaces (filter)

I am trying to write a program to parse a file and look for spaces and store them in an array
then I want to make a new file with the format:
[spaces number on this line] (rest of line without spaces)

but all I want to do now is just store the values in the array

Here is what I have here but the allocation of spaces into the array isn't working right.

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int arc, char* argv[])
{
	int count=0;
	int spaces[256];
	char a[256];
	ifstream myfile;
	myfile.open("c:\\luke\\test.txt");
	
	if(myfile.fail())
	{
		cerr<<"you fool!\n";
		abort();
	}
	for(int i=0;i<=256;i++)
		spaces[i]=0;
	while(myfile.get(a))
	{
		for(count=0;count<=sizeof(a);count++)
			if(a[count]==' '||a[count]=='\t')
				spaces[count]++;
	}
	for(i=0;i<=10;i++)
		cout<<spaces[i]<<endl;
	return 0;
}

any ideas, if at all possible avoid a complete program, I want this mostly to be my own work, just a little help or idea would be nice though.

I'm not too sure what you are trying to do, so if I'm wildly off forgive me.

Are you trying to count the number of spaces & tabs per line in a text file?

If so, maybe you could create a vector to hold the space and tab count of each line.....you could read each line with getline() then use the STL algorithm count_if() to count if each char is a space or char...like;

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>


bool IsSpace(const char& c){
	return c == ' ' || c == '\t';
}

int main(){
	
	std::ifstream in;
	std::vector<int> vec;
	
	in.open("MyFile.txt");
	
	if(!in.is_open()){
		std::cout << "Error opening file";
		return 1;
	}
	
	
	std::string str;
	while(!in.eof()){
		getline(in,str);
		vec.push_back(std::count_if(str.begin(),str.end(),IsSpace));
	}
	
	std::cout << "Number of lines counted " << vec.size() << std::endl;
	
	std::cout << "Number of spaces & tabs per line was;" << std::endl;
	
	std::copy(vec.begin(),vec.end(),std::ostream_iterator<int>(std::cout,"\n"));
		
}