Simple Counting Program

[wiec7548]

Hey guys, I'm trying to create a program that reads from a text file "mytext.txt" and outputs on the screen the number of lines, characters, and words in the file. I have the lines portion working, but can't think of a way to get each character individually, and words?

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
void main() 
{
	
	char line[100];
	
	ifstream infile;
	infile.open("U://mytext.txt");

	if (infile.fail()) 
	
	{
	cout<<"File not found! Exiting."<<endl;
	exit(0); 
	}
	int characters=0, lines=0, words=0;

	while(infile.getline(line, 100))
	{
		lines++  ;
		
	} 
	cout<<"The total number of lines in the file is: "<<lines<<endl;
	infile.clear() ;
	infile.seekg(0, ios::beg) ; //so that the beginning of the file is being read again

		while(infile)
	{
		//not sure what to do here?
		characters++  ;
		
	} 
	
	cout<<"The total number of characters in the file is: "<<characters<<endl;

}

[ttrz]

Maybe there is a better way to do this, but this is just one way I thought of:

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

using namespace std;

int main () {
	string s;
	int totalChars = 0, 
		totalWords = 0, 
		totalLines = 0;

	ifstream in("test.txt");

	if(!in){
		cout << "Failed to open input file.";
		return -1;
	}


	while(getline(in, s, '\n')){
		totalChars += s.length();
		totalLines++;

		for(int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++){
			if(s[i] == ' ')
				continue;

			totalWords++;

			while(i != s.length() && s[i] != ' ')
				i++;
		}

	}

	cout << "Total Words: " << totalWords << endl;
	cout << "Total Characters: " << totalChars << endl;
	cout << "Total Lines: " << totalLines << endl;

		return 0;
}