unable to display a file

[kcc15]

I have to do a program that counts different types of characters in an ordinary text file. We are supposed to have the text file display in the output and I can't even get to that point. Here is what I have so far:

#include <iomanip>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

//function prototypes go here



int main()
{
ifstream inputFile;

//Open the input file. If it fails to open, display an error message and
//end the program

inputFile.open( "compsci.txt" );
if( inputFile.fail() )
{
cout << "compsci.txt failed to open";
exit( -1 );
}

//******* The code to process the input file goes below this line *******

inputFile.open("compsci.txt");
char ch;
inputFile.get (ch);
ch++;
cout <<ch;



//Close the input file

inputFile.close();

cout<<endl;
system ("pause");
return 0;
}

[tummychow]

Uh, so what isn't working?
Also, you need code tags on that.

[kcc15]

it is not displaying the file in the output.
sorry my teacher doesn't require tags on everything so i'm not used to doing it.

[tummychow]

No, it's not a programming thing, it's a forum thing.
http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/firedraco1/
Anyway, do you actually want to "increment" a character? Because that's exactly what you're doing, and it will change the character. In addition, you appear to be opening the file twice. That's really not going to go over well.

[Null]

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files/

[Vidus]

Do you mean have it output how many A's or B's(or any ascii char) are in the file?

[kcc15]

I need to have it output how many characters are in the text, including whitespace, and I need to have the actual text within the file display in the output.