Thread: Weird Error. Please Help.

Well basically I am supposed to create a program that reads a specific file and counts the words,lines, and paragraphs (Paragraphs are considered to be anything with a full line of blank space inbetween text).


When I run build in Visual C++ it seems as if it compiles just fine, but it won't link.

I get the following error:

error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "void __cdecl processBlanks(class std::basic_ifstream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > &,char &,int &)" (?processBlanks@@YAXAAV?$basic_ifstream@DU?$char_t raits@D@std@@@std@@A
ADAAH@Z)

fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
Error executing link.exe.



Now let me just say that, When I remove the functions from the program it works fine. So my guess is that it has something to do with how I am passing the ifstream to my functions.

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>


using namespace std;


void processBlanks(ifstream& Istream,char & ch, int & wordCount);
void copyText(ifstream& Istream,char & ch);
void updateCount(int & totalwordCount, int & wordCount, int & lines, int & paraGraph);
void printTotal(int & totalwordCount, int & lines, int & paraGraph);




//==============================================================================================================================================
//========================================================== Main Function =====================================================================
//==============================================================================================================================================


int main()								// begin main function
{

ifstream Istream;
ofstream Ostream;					   // Change name of Ofstream into Ostream


int lines =0;
int wordCount =0;
int totalwordCount =0;
int paraGraph = 0;
char ch;

												// Declaring variables as strings


Istream.open("Yo.txt");								// Opening of the Text document
Ostream.open("word.txt");

Istream.get(ch);

 while (Istream != 0)	// Process the file (While 1)
 {

   while (ch != '\n')	 // Process the line (While 2)
    {
	  processBlanks(Istream,ch,wordCount);
	  copyText(Istream,ch);
	}										// EoWhile 2

   updateCount(totalwordCount,wordCount,lines,paraGraph);
   cout << ch;
   Istream.get(ch);



 }											// EoWhile 1

printTotal(totalwordCount,lines,paraGraph);

Istream.close();
Ostream.close();

 return 0;
}
//==============================================================================================================================================
//======================================================= End of Function ======================================================================
//==============================================================================================================================================






//==============================================================================================================================================
//========================================================== processBlank Function =============================================================
//==============================================================================================================================================
void processBlanks(ifstream& Istream,char & ch, int wordCount)
{
	 
	while (ch == ' ')		// (While 3)
	  {
	   cout << ch ;
	   Istream.get(ch);
   	  }

	   if (ch != ' ' && ch != '\n')
	   {
		wordCount++;
	   }


  return;
}

//==============================================================================================================================================
//======================================================= End of Function ======================================================================
//==============================================================================================================================================



//==============================================================================================================================================
//========================================================== copyText Function =================================================================
//==============================================================================================================================================
void copyText(ifstream& Istream,char & ch)
{

	 while (ch != ' ' && ch != '\n')			// While 4
	 {
      cout << ch;
      Istream.get(ch);
	 }


 return;
}
//==============================================================================================================================================
//======================================================= End of Function ======================================================================
//==============================================================================================================================================


//==============================================================================================================================================
//========================================================== updateCount Function ==============================================================
//==============================================================================================================================================
void updateCount(int & totalwordCount, int & wordCount, int & lines, int & paraGraph)
{
 totalwordCount = totalwordCount + wordCount;
 lines++;

	if (wordCount == 0)
		{
		 paraGraph++;
		 lines--;
		}

  wordCount = 0;

 return;
}
//==============================================================================================================================================
//======================================================= End of Function ======================================================================
//==============================================================================================================================================


//==============================================================================================================================================
//========================================================== printTotal Function ===============================================================
//==============================================================================================================================================
void printTotal(int & totalwordCount, int & lines, int & paraGraph)
{
	cout << "Total Words is equal to " << totalwordCount << endl;
	cout << "Total Lines is equal to " << lines << endl;
	cout << "Total paragraphs is equal to " << paraGraph << endl;

  return;
}
//==============================================================================================================================================
//======================================================= End of Function ======================================================================
//==============================================================================================================================================

Code:

void processBlanks(ifstream& Istream,char & ch, int & wordCount);
void processBlanks(ifstream& Istream,char & ch, int wordCount) { ... }

No match!

Haha... It has been a long day.


Thanks a lot for the help .