Plz help me on my assignment

here is my coding so far:

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

main()
{
ifstream infile;
ofstream outfile;
char ch;
int counter=0;



infile.open("before.txt", ios::out);
while(infile.get(ch))
{
cout << ch;

if(ch == ' ')
{
counter ++;
}
}


cout <<endl<<counter<<endl;
return 0;
}

This counts the spaces in a text file, what I need to do is count the spaces just b4 the lines.

this is the txt file:

// A short example file

float singleTax (float income)
{
if (income <= 20350.0)
return (income 8 0.15);
else
if (income <= 49300.0)
return (3052.50 + (0.28 * (income - 20350.0)));
else
return (11158.50 + (0.31 * (income - 4900.0)));
}

please help me if you can

Thanks in advance

if(ch == ' ')
{
counter ++;
}
}


change this to:

if(ch == EOF)
{
counter ++;
}
}

that didn't work right, I need it to count the number of spaces b4 the line starts, for every line

Code:

---

        ifstream infile( "test.txt", ios::in );
        char ch;
        int counter = 0;
        while(!infile.eof())
        {
                infile.get( ch );
                if( ch == ' ' )  //line begins with space
                {
                        do
                        {
                                infile.get( ch );
                                counter++;
                        }while( ch == ' ' );
                        infile.ignore( 80, '\n' );
                }
                else
                {
                        infile.ignore( 80, '\n' );
                }
        }
        cout << "Number if spaces = " << counter << endl;

---

I'm going to explode if I don't see some friggin' code tags :(

I used them, look above!!! Aint I clever :)

I agree people should use them more often - its so helpful to see properly indented code

There's no such function as main(). There is a required function int main().