programming a word scanner problem

[GSalah]

Dear all , I tried to programe a scanner that scans a text file and tables the tokens inside , but my scanner can't see the spaces and the end lines

my simple code tries to open the file and look inside for printing it on screen .
please what can I do for this ?

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


void main()
{  
     char d;
    	ifstream input("c:\\test\\Data_file.txt");
    	if ( !input.is_open() ) 
	     cout << "the file couldn't be opened !" ;
	else cout << "the file is opend successfully !" ;

cout << endl;
for(int i=0 ; i<50; i++)
	{
	   //input.seekg(i,ios::beg);
	   input >> d;
	   cout << d;}

}

thank you all.

[nadroj]

afew points:

- since this is c++ get rid of the .h in the includes
- put 'using namespace std;' after the last include
- change 'void main' to 'int main'
- change your for loop to: while (! input.eof()), and add semicolon at the end of the while brace
- change 'input >> d' to 'd = input.get();'

[Daved]

>> change your for loop to: while (! input.eof()),
This is usually not a good idea. In this case you might end up outputting the last character twice.

Check the result of the read as the control for the while loop. In this case that doesn't quite work because you are suggesting get(), but you should still check the status of cin after calling get() and before using the value retrieved.

[nadroj]

ok, mine was just a quick suggestion.. but at least change it from what the initial loop was!