Letter count

Hi all,

I'm supposed to write a program that counts the number of characters, words, and lines in a text file

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

int main ()
{
ifstream inFile ("file.txt" , ios::in);

if (!inFile){
cerr<<"File could not be opened / Does not exist";
exit (1);
}

char character, word[30];
int letters=0,
words=0,
lines = 0;

while (inFile>>character){
++letters;
if (character == '/n')
++lines;
}

while (!EOF){
inFile>>word;
++words;
}
cout<<"The number of letters in this file -without spaces- are: "<<letters<<endl;
cout<<"The number of lines is: "<<lines<<endl;
cout<<"The number of words is : "<<words<<endl;
return 0;
}

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The program does count the letters correctly, but the number of lines and words stay the same, how come?

Well, on this line of your code:


if (character == '/n')

I don't know if it matters but I think '/n' should be '\n'

and when you check the first time for letters or new lines, your file pointer will stay at the end, so he will neverenter your last while loop. I think (not sure)you have to set it back to the beginning of the file. you can do this with fseek. I've never used it, but this is a code sample from the msvc help:
fseek( stream, 23L, SEEK_SET);

but this is just a thought, not really sure about this