Need to report some things in a text file to the user...

I need to make a program that asks a user for the name of a text file and reports the number of characters in the text file, and the number of end-of-line characters in the text file. I made a text file called TEXT.txt. I am really completely lost right now...I really don't have anything that makes much sense now, but here it is. Please help me. Thanks.

Code:

#include<iostream.h>
#include<fstream.h>

int main()
{
	ifstream textfile;
	cout << "Enter the name of a text file: ";
	cin >> textfile;

	textfile.open(textfile, ios::in)

	while(!textfile.eof())
	{

	return 0;
}

Be a lot more specific in future. Tell us what errors you're getting, what the program is doing, what you'd like to do, what you've tried, etc...

Code:

#include<iostream>
#include<fstream>

using namespace std;

Technically the top of your program should look like that - they changed stuff a bit in the latest C++ standard. Older compilers will still use the old style, but I strongly recommend that you update to a new one (Dev-C++ 5.0 beta is great - www.bloodshed.net).

Make sure you're using ifstream's properly - it's been a while since I did it myself but the parameter list in

Code:

textfile.open(textfile, ios::in)

just doesn't look right to me. Not to mention that you're missing a semicolon at the end of that line.

And then your program is incomplete. Your while loop has an opening {, never matches it with a closing one, and does nothing.

Code:

int x = 0;

while (!textfile.eof())
{
    char garb;
    textfile.get(garb);
    x++;
}

x = x-1;

cout << x;

There's one loop. See what you can do with it.