Write a C++ program that counts the number of characters in the file “file.txt”. Your code should load the provided file “file.txt”. You will need to place this file “file.txt” in the same directory as your source.cpp file. You do not need to count the whitespace characters. Make sure your output matches the formatting as shown in the expected output below. Please properly comment your code before submission. Expected Operation: file.txt Contents: Hello world, how are you? London bridge Program Output Number of characters: 33 Hint: Open the file “file.txt” as an input file stream ifstream Read the file character by character, and keep count of the number of characters seen so far char c; ifs >> c; Loads the characters from the file, while ignoring whitespaces. o This is fine Keep reading from the file until ifs.eof() returns a true. Where ifs is your file stream object. You can have other variable names ifs.eof() returning true indicates that the end of the file has been reached. The number of characters seen so far is the length of your file in bytes . However, you might notice that using eof() to compute the length of your file results in a size of an extra byte. Both ways are fine. o Instead of char c char c; while(ifs.eof()!- true) { ifs >> c; … You could also try the following, which would give you the correct count of characters char c; while(ifs>> c) {…} Show transcribed image text Write a C++ program that counts the number of characters in the file “file.txt”. Your code should load the provided file “file.txt”. You will need to place this file “file.txt” in the same directory as your source.cpp file. You do not need to count the whitespace characters. Make sure your output matches the formatting as shown in the expected output below. Please properly comment your code before submission.
Expected Operation: file.txt Contents: Hello world, how are you? London bridge Program Output Number of characters: 33 Hint: Open the file “file.txt” as an input file stream ifstream Read the file character by character, and keep count of the number of characters seen so far char c; ifs >> c; Loads the characters from the file, while ignoring whitespaces. o This is fine Keep reading from the file until ifs.eof() returns a true. Where ifs is your file stream object. You can have other variable names ifs.eof() returning true indicates that the end of the file has been reached. The number of characters seen so far is the length of your file in bytes . However, you might notice that using eof() to compute the length of your file results in a size of an extra byte. Both ways are fine. o Instead of char c
char c; while(ifs.eof()!- true) { ifs >> c; … You could also try the following, which would give you the correct count of characters char c; while(ifs>> c) {…}
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