Counting characters
Does anyone know of a code I could use to count the number of characters (or words) in an externel text file? I suppose I would use the file to create a string variable first. but I can't think of what I'd use to count the characters (perhaps a search function of some sort?)
Use the size() function member of the string to count the size of the string. Subtract the spaces by using the count() algorithm.
Both functions description can be found here: http://www.cppreference.com/index.html
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
Or if you're using Windows you could use CreateFile() to open a file and then GetFileSize() to get it's size.
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