Having some problems with homework.

Ok We are doing the basic I/O problems where you count the words, line and characters in a text file along with some other stuff.

With counting words I have it checking for spaces but it doesn't find a space at the end of the line so it doesn't count that last word.

Code:

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if(myInFile.is_open()){
                       
                        while(getline(myInFile, theText)){                       
                                //myInFile >> word;
                                lineCount++;
                                for(int i = 0; i < theText.length(); i++){
                                        ch = theText[i];
                                        if(isspace(ch))
                                                wordCount++;
                                        cout << "char: " << ch << endl;
                                }
                               
                               
                        }
                }

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So if I have something like

The Dog ran away
Yesterday he came back.

It will only count 6 words. It will not count the words away and back.

Thanks for any help.

well, a cheap way of doing it is to concatenate a space on teh string before you count the words. A better way woudl be to have it see the end of teh string as whitespace as well. You could also count the beginnings of the words instead of the whitespace.

How would you go about doing that?

I tried to see if ch == '\0' but that doesnt seem to work.

You have another problem as well. What if the line looks like this:

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        once    upon    a      time

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If you count a word each time you find a space, this line will give you 8 words before you get to "once". Instead, count 1 word when you find the first letter on the line, then just keep reading and printing characters until you find the next blank space, and then continue reading and printing until you find the first non-blank character, and only then do you record the 2nd word, and so on...

Thus you will increase your count at the beginning of each word, not the end. Then, if you want to get fancy, check if the final character on the line is a hyphen, so you'll know not to count the first "word" on the next line because it is actually a continuation of the last word on the previous line.

What is isn't doing is reading the last word of a line because there is no space after it.

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Originally Posted by Djanvk

What is isn't doing is reading the last word of a line because there is no space after it.

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Are you saying that the output to the screen after reading "The dog ran away" is just

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t
h
e
 
d
o
g
 
r
a
n

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?