Question

For the following code I need to open the file of a persons choice which I did. I can get it to read the file, but I need help with counting lines and characters feel like i have the code I just cant make it work.

Either way, the program should then ask the user Analyze another file (y/n)? and repeat the process again (asking for a file and analyzing its meta-data). This should continue repeating until the user chooses n for not analyzing another file.

#include <iostream>

#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main() {

  int lines, chars;

  string file, text;

  fstream reader;

  char choice;

  string line;

  int count = 0;

  string L;

  

  do{

    cout << "File to open:\n";

    getline(cin, file);

    

  ifstream ReadFile;

  ReadFile.open(file);

  if(ReadFile.fail())

  {

  // output after failing at opening file

    cout << "Clould not open file." << endl;

  }

  else

  {

  for(string words; getline(ReadFile, words, '.'); ) //read sentences including

  //spaces

  cout<<words; //Display sentences

  

  while(  getline (ReadFile, line)){    //gets the # of chars

             cout<<line<<endl;

              chars++;

    }

  while ( getline (file, L))

        count++;

  // output after analyzing a file

    cout << "Lines: " << L << endl;

    cout << "Characters: " << chars << endl;

  

  

      }

  ReadFile.close();

    // prompt user whether they want to repeat

    cout << "Analyze another file (y/n)?" << endl;

    cin >> choice;

    cin.ignore();

  }while( choice==y);

  

  return 0;

}

Answer 1

Code:

#include <iostream>

#include <fstream>

#include<string>

using namespace std;

int main() {

char ch;

string file,line;

fstream reader;

char c;

ifstream ReadFile;

do{

int count_line = 0,count_word=0;

cout << "File to open:\n";

fflush(stdin); //used to flush the output buffer of the stream

getline(cin, file);

ReadFile.open(file.c_str());

if(ReadFile.fail()) // output after failing at opening file

{

cout<<"Clould not open file."<<endl;

}

else

{

while (getline(ReadFile, line))

count_line++; //count number of lines

ReadFile.clear(); //return file pointer to first position of the file

ReadFile.seekg(0);

while (1)

{

ReadFile.get(c);

if (ReadFile.eof()) break;

count_word++; //count number of charecter including space

}

ReadFile.close(); //close the file

}

// output after analyzing a file

cout << "Lines: " << count_line << endl;

cout << "Characters: " << count_word << endl;

cout << "Analyze another file (y/n)?" << endl; // prompt user whether they want to repeat

cin>>ch;

}while(ch=='y');

return 0;

}

Testing file:

Output: