Reading a spaced file

I have a text file with a paragraph of text in it, but in between each letter is a space. I'm trying to get a program to read into the file and write a file with no spaces, but I'm not managing. I've tried something like this so far ( this isn't the actual code, I get frustrated and deleted it :P )

Code:

int main()
{

ifstream fin;
ofstream fout;

fin.open("myfile.txt", ios::binary | ios::in);
if(!fin)
{
cout << "File not opened.";
Sleep(2000);
return 0;
}

char data;

while(fin.get(data))
{
cout << data;
}

/* Up to here, my program works, and I get everything printed to screen. */

Then I come across a problem. "data" wasn't declared as an array, so I can't use this :

Code:

for(int x = 0; x < strlen(data); x++)
{
cout << data[x]
x++;
}

Also, I can't do this :

Code:

char content[strlen(data)] = data;
for(int x = 0; x < strlen(data); x++)
{
cout << content[x]
x++;
}

Does anyone see how I could solve this ?
Thanks.

1. If your are opening a text file,don't use ios::binary.
2. get should work
Copy with whitespace

Code:

char c;
while(file.get(c))
     cout.put(c);

Copy without whitespace

Code:

while(file.get(c))
    if(!std::isspace(c))
        cout.put(c);

I'm using ios::binary because the file was written in binary, it's actually a Windows file. If you try writing

"Hello,

Hi."

in binary, you'll see you don't get a line between hello and hi, but a square character, which is what's in this file.

What's cout.put and std::isspace ?

Also, I can't do this :

Code:

char content[strlen(data)] = data;
for(int x = 0; x < strlen(data); x++)
{
cout << content[x]
x++;
}

if im reading you correctly, you are trying to:

1. create a new string the size of data
2. copy the contents of data to the new string

try replacing

Code:

char content[strlen(data)] = data;

with this:

Code:

char *content = new char[ strlen(data) ];
strcpy(content, data);

dont forget to delete content.

as for the loop, i'll leave it up to you to figure out what is wrong with it.

When and why would I delete content ?

Also, I still don't see what's wrong with the loop.

Code:

for(int x = 0; x < strlen(data); x++)
{
cout << data[x]
x++;
}