[Jheshka]

I have to accomplish this:

Create a wordCount application that displays the number of words and the average word length in a text file named source.txt. Consider a to be any sequence of letters terminated by nonletters. For example, forty-nine is two words.

I don't want anyone to do it for me, because it's for a course, but my teacher can't really provide any help, because he doesn't know C++.
Main reason my teacher can't really help me, is because this is supposed to be a java course, and I'm doing C++, because I've already done java, extensively.
If anyone could link me to a few useful sites, I'd appreciate it a lot.
(I've tried google, and nothing was too spectacular)

I don't think I'll have much trouble with the file writing... But the string manipulation is going to be a bit of a pain.

[Hawk552]

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...ringClass.html

[Jheshka]

Originally Posted by Hawk552 http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Lin...ringClass.html

You, sir, are full of win.
Thank you very much.

[Jheshka]

Mostly basic C++ functions... Using cygwin, so I guess that's considered a linux platform.



Got a quick question though..
How can I have the
str.length() function return the length of the entire string, not stopping after a space.

Using cin << to get the string.

[BAILOPAN]

cin stops at a space, not length().

[Jheshka]

I see.. How should I go about getting a string input then?

[Hawk552]

For starters, you'll need the file stream header (fstream.h). If you haven't learned how to open files using this, look it up.

Use a while loop which keeps gathering each word, then stop when it returns 0. Each time you iterate through the loop, get the string length and then add that value to a total length variable. Divide this total length variable by the number of iterations and print out this average value as well as the number of iterations.

Done.