Miscalculating words/spaces

I was suppose to create a programs that reads out all characters, spaces, and words in a txt file, also a word would be anything followed by a space and also includes punctuation marks as words.
So far I have done everything that I am suppose to, but running the txt file under certain circumstances such as "space.space" in creates double words this is my code so far.

Code:

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#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <conio.h>
#include <cctype>
using namespace std;


int main()
{
        char ch,oldch;
        int cnt_ch=0, cnt_words=0, spacenum=0;


        ifstream poemfile;

        poemfile.open("F:\\Super Computer programming\\Roses.txt");


        if( poemfile.fail() )
        {
                cout<<"The File could not be found. Terminating\n";
                getch();
                exit(1);
        }




        ch = poemfile.get();
       
       
       

        while( !poemfile.eof() ) 
        { 
                cout<<ch;
                cnt_ch++;
                ch=poemfile.get();

    if(ch == ' ')
        {
                spacenum++;
    }
   
    if ((ch == ' ') && (oldch != ' ') ) cnt_words ++; 
 
 
                if ((ch == '?') || (ch == '.') || (ch == '!'))
                {
   
                      cnt_words++;
     
                }
 

}

        poemfile.close();

        cout<<"\nThe file had "<<cnt_ch
                <<" characters, "<<spacenum
                <<" spaces, and "<<cnt_words+1
                <<" words\n";

        cout<<"\n\nNormal termination.\n";
        getch();
        return 0;
}

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This code

Quote:

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Originally Posted by raulian

Code:

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if ((ch == '?') || (ch == '.') || (ch == '!'))
{
    cnt_words++;
}

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contradicts the statement

Quote:

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Originally Posted by raulian

...a word would be anything followed by a space and also includes punctuation marks as words.

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Indentation shouldn't be random. Your code would be a lot easier to read and debug if it were formatted better.

You're checking for the value in oldch, but you're never setting it anywhere.