program to report number of words in a file

[zalaska]

Hello all. I am new to C++ programming and am having some problems with getting my program to work. The program should report how many words are in a file by only counting characters. I've worked this program over for a day-and-half now, and still cannot get it work correctly. I keep getting 0 for word count. Does anyone see anything wrong in my code?? Thanks....



// This program counts and reports the number of words in a file
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
ifstream infile;
string filename;
char prevChar;
char currChar;
int loopcount;

cout << "Enter the name of the file or \"quit\" to exit: "; // Which file to open?
cin >> filename; // User input

infile.open(filename.c_str()); // Open the file

if (filename == "quit") // If user types "quit"
{
system("pause");
exit(1);
}

if (!infile) // If file is not opened
{
cout << "Unable to open file." << endl;
system("pause");
exit(1);
}
while (infile)
{
loopcount = 0; // Increment counter
infile.get(prevChar); // Primer
infile.get(currChar);
if (currChar == ' ' && prevChar != ' ') // While file is opened
{
loopcount++; // Increment
prevChar = currChar;
infile.get(currChar);


}

cout << "The number of words is: " << loopcount << endl;
// Output to the user with word count

infile.close(); // Close the opened file
infile.clear(); // Clear the error

cout << "Enter the name of the file, or \"quit\" to exit: "; // Do you want to open another file?
cin >> filename; // File name to open

infile.open(filename.c_str()); // Open the file

if (filename == "quit") // If user types "quit"
{
system("pause");
exit(1);
}

if (!infile) // Did the file open?
{
cout << "Unable to open file." << endl;
system("pause");
exit(1);
}
}
system("pause");
}

[writetonsharma]

//try this code

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
	ifstream infile;
	string filename;
	char prevChar;
	char currChar;
	int loopcount = 0;

	cout << "Enter the name of the file or \"quit\" to exit: "; // Which file to open?
	cin >> filename; // User input

	infile.open(filename.c_str()); // Open the file

	if (filename == "quit") // If user types "quit"
	{
		//system("pause");
		exit(1);
	}

	if (!infile) // If file is not opened
	{
		cout << "Unable to open file." << endl;
		//system("pause");
		exit(1);
	}
	while (infile)
	{
		
		infile.get(prevChar); // Primer
		//infile.get(currChar);
		if (prevChar == ' ') // While file is opened
		{
		loopcount++; // Increment
		//prevChar = currChar;
		}
	}

	//increment for the last word
	loopcount++;

	cout << "The number of words is: " << loopcount << endl;
	// Output to the user with word count

	infile.close(); // Close the opened file
	infile.clear(); // Clear the error	

	system("pause");
}