Thread: Skip spaces project

find a way to only skip or add spaces where you know a gramatically correctly used space would occur... [i find that quite a task...] give us any example of the correct output and your input... plus, i would doubt that your instructor would give such an assignment... maybe i have the wrong idea about it's task...

this is my whole program thus far

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <cmath>
#include <fstream>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;

void skip(ifstream& infile, ofstream& outfile, char& c);


int main ()
{

ifstream infile;
ofstream outfile;

infile.open("start.txt");
if (infile.fail())
{
cout << " Input file opening failed.\n";
exit (1);
}

outfile.open("end.txt");
if (outfile.fail())
{
cout << " Output file opening failed.\n";
exit (1);
}

char c;


infile.get(c);
while (! infile.eof())

{


if (c != ' ')
outfile.put(c);
else
outfile.put(c);
infile.get(c);
skip(infile, outfile, c);

infile.get(c);


}



infile.close();
outfile.close();

return 0;

}

void skip(ifstream& infile, ofstream& outfile, char& c)

{

while (c == ' ')
{
infile.get(c);

}
infile.putback(c);
}

It's supposed to take an input like

Hi there this is the file ( more than one space between words)

and output it so it reads

Hi there this is the file

but I can only get
Hitherethisisthefile

I've been playing around with it tonight and no matter what I change it either shows all the letters but no spaces or shows the spaces but knocks off the first letter of each word. If you have any ideas please let me know, thanks

ooh! i see now... run through your file like this...

if a space is in the current character, check if a space is in the next character, delete if it is, else do not delete... if it is not a space, go to the next character...