// // Program: countlines // // Purpose: count lines in input file. // // Input: // File name, from standard input. // Output: // Number of lines in specified file, to standard output. // #include #include // has ifstream #include // has exit(), EXIT_* #include // has setw() int main() { ifstream infile; const int BUFFSIZE=1000; char filename[BUFFSIZE]; // Obtain name of input file. cout << "Name of input file? "; cin >> setw(BUFFSIZE) >> filename; // Open file. infile.open(filename); if (!infile) { cout << "Unable to open " << filename << endl; exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } // Count lines. int count = 0; char line[BUFFSIZE]; while (infile.getline(line, BUFFSIZE)) // reads one line into "line" ++count; // Close file and print result. infile.close(); cout << count << " lines\n"; return EXIT_SUCCESS; }