I/O stream hw problem

[Gamerzdisease]

Hey everyone, i currently having a homework assignment and i'm a little stumped. The assignment calls for us to take this line:


This is the input file for Programming Project 6 on p. 366.



and transfer it to an output file without any of the extra spaces in between the words. The code i have so far is:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;

void transfer(ifstream& fin, ofstream& fout);

int main()
{
ifstream fin;
ofstream fout;

cout << "Transfering input file 'indata.txt' to output file 'outdata.txt'..." << endl;

fin.open("indata.txt");
if(fin.fail())
{
cout << "Input file opening failed";
exit(1);
}

fout.open("outdata.txt");
if(fin.fail())
{
cout << "Output file opening failed";
exit(1);
}

transfer(fin, fout);

cout << "Transfer complete" << endl;

return 0;

}

void transfer(ifstream& fin, ofstream& fout)
{
char next;
fin.get(next);
while (! fin.eof())
{
if(next == ' ')
fout << ' ';
else
fout << next;
fin.get(next);
}
}


i can't figure out how to erase the spaces between the words. What i have now just transfers it without doing anything. Any help would be appreciated

[firedraco]

You almost have it. Look at your transfer function when you are outputting to the file.

[Gamerzdisease]

Well when i look at it seems right. Within my if statement i have my char variable set to equal two blank characters and when this happens it should only print one but it doesn't. Plus this process would be a little tedious considering the sentence i have to use has between 1 to 3 spaces between each of the words, which means i would have to use multiple if statements which i don't think my prof wants (unless that's the only way how)