Thread: opening a file from hard drive

let me revise this. i need help closing the file, not opening it. when i try to run this i get an error message saying it expected a constructor or destructor before the "." token on the line that has inputFile.close(). what does that mean? how do i properly close this file?

Code:

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

using namespace std;
bool myIsAlpha( char ch );
bool myIsDigit( char ch );
bool myIsUpper( char ch );
int countPunct = 0,
countAlpha = 0,
countUpper = 0,
countLower = 0,
countChar = 0,
countDigit = 0,
countSpace = 0,
countWhite = 0;
char ch; 

int main()
{
ifstream inputFile;

//Open the input file. If it fails to open, display an error message and
//end the program

inputFile.open( "input.txt" );
if( inputFile.fail() )
{
cout << "input.txt failed to open";
exit( -1 );
}

if(ispunct(ch))
{
countPunct++;
}

else if(myIsAlpha(ch))
{
countAlpha++;
}

else if (myIsDigit(ch))
{
countDigit++;
}
else if (myIsUpper(ch))
{
countUpper++;
}
else if (islower(ch))
{
countLower++;
}
else if (isspace(ch))
{
countWhite++;
}
}

//Close the input file

inputFile.close();

return 0;
}