Asking input file condition statement

kslpeter87 · #1 09-09-2007, 09:58 PM

Question: Calculate the number of words in a paragraph entered

algorithm :
1. store the paragraph entered into a .txt file
2. read the words from file, which separated by spaces
3. loop step 2 until no words left to read
4. display the number of loops repeated.

How to excape the loop with condition there's no more words in the txt file ?

shabbir · #2 09-09-2007, 10:42 PM

I could not get whats your query or do you want us to write the program for you? If that is the case this is a forum where people help each other and not a free home work help store.

kslpeter87 · #3 09-15-2007, 06:28 AM

Shabbir i've edited my post. Hope you could get what i mean.

kslpeter87 · #4 09-19-2007, 10:05 PM

This is my code

Code:

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

int main()
{
ofstream outputfile;
ifstream inputfile;
char X[500],a[50];

outputfile.open("abc.txt");

cout << "Type the paragraph and will count the words you typed";
cin.get(X,500);

outputfile << X;
outputfile.close();

inputfile.open("abc.txt");

for (int count=0 ; [      ] ; count++)
    inputfile >> a;

getch();

return 0;

}

The [ ] is the part i dunno how to write. hope somebody can help.

shabbir · #5 09-19-2007, 11:39 PM

You can put inputfile >> a; because it will return null when the EOF is reached. Just check the doc to make it 100% sure

kslpeter87 · #6 09-23-2007, 09:03 PM

Thank you Shabbir. I use while loop instead of for loop. Thank you very much.