I'm in a programming class and I have an assignment where I have to open a file, and count the number of times a certain character apperas that the user input, in that file. I need help in figuring out how to create a function to count the number of occurence of a give characeter, and with any mistakes that I may have made. So far this is what I have



#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

// function to find the number of occurences of a character
int count_file(ifstream& in_file, int num);
int count_file(in_stream, out_stream);
int main()
{
int num, total;

//open file input
in_stream.open("infile.txt");
if (in_stream.fail())
{
cout << "opening input file failed" << endl
<< "program terminated" << endl;
exit(1);
}

cout << "Enter a charcter that you would like to know whether or not it appears";
cin >> num;


// function to find the number of occurences of a character
count_file()

//open file for output
out_stream.open("outfile.txt");

count_file(in_stream, out_stream);

// closing files
in_stream.close();
out_stream.close();

return 0;
}

int count_file(ifstream& in_file, int num)
{
while(! in_file.eof())
{
fin.get(num)
total =
}
}

// function to output the answer
int count_file(in_stream, out_stream)
{
cout << "The charcetr" << num << "occured" << total << "times";
}

Simple rules of the UNIX.COM forums:

Rule 6.

surely you would do the equivalent of

But you're in a C++ class so you do it in C++.

I think you mean "whether", not "weather".

thankyou for the help