how to count words in a text file

hi i have this file with words printed on seperate lines. i want to count these words and display the total on the screen. at present i have a function to do this however it doesn't seem to be working, it outputs to screen:
word count: 0.
word count: 0.
word count: 0. repeatedly on seperate rows always saying 0, when basically i want it to say for example, word count: 50 just one time as opposed to 50 times can anyone help me figure out why its not doing that. thanks.

Code:

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int wordcount(){

ifstream inFile;

inFile.open("C:\\Users\\hp\\Desktop\\egg.txt");
if (inFile.is_open())
{
        string word;
        unsigned long wordCount = 0;
        while(!inFile.eof())
        {
                inFile >> word;
                if(word.length() > 0)
                {
                        wordCount++;
                }
        }
        cout << "Unique word count: " << wordCount << endl;
}
return 0;

}

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