counting whitespace characters

Hey, I have spent about an hour trying to figure out what is wrong with this code. I have tried every variation of it that I can think of. I'm trying to count the whitespaces in a text file. This function is, of course, only part of the program. When the program runs, "count" gets printed as 0. Everything I've tried ends up with "count" being zero. I can't figure it out. Thanks for the help in advance.

Here's the code:

Code:

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void countspace( FILE* inFile)
{
    char ch;
    int count = 0;

    while (fscanf (inFile, "%c", &ch) != EOF)

      if (isspace(ch))
          count++;

    printf("\nThere are %d white space characters.", count);

return;
}

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Could be the way you're analyzing the ret val of scanf. Don't use the function much myself. I did notice some inconsitencies with the code though. The function doesn't return anything - how useful is that? You shouldn't really be printing from within the function either since if you ever do reuse it, you'll always get a printout - extra baggage so to speak. Finally, since the function operates on an already open file, it should go back to where it started whenever the function completes. Here's a more robust approach. This function will count any given character, thus eeking out as much reusability as possible (the primary aim of a software engineer of course).

Code:

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unsigned int count_char(FILE * inFile, char what)
{
 int ch;
 unsigned int count = 0;

 unsigned int bookmark = ftell(inFile); // save the current position
   
    while ((ch = fgetc(inFile)) != EOF)
      if (ch == what)
        count++;

 fseek(inFile, bookmark, SEEK_SET); // restore file-position
 
 return count;
}

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