C++ Program to Count Number of Words, Lines and Total Size of a Text File

In this C++ program we are counting the number of words, lines and the total size of a text file in bytes. I have used a text file “story.txt”. Make sure you already created this file and have some text in it. Place this file in the same directory where your source code file is present. I have used proper comments in the program to make it easy to understand. If you are still facing any problem then you can ask your questions in comment section.

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C++ Program to Count Number of Words, Lines and Total Size of a Text File

11 thoughts on “C++ Program to Count Number of Words, Lines and Total Size of a Text File”

  1. i was edit this program for counting average word size
    #include
    #include
    using namespace std;

    int main()
    {
    ifstream fin(“file.txt”); ///opening text file
    int line=1,word=1,size = 1; ///will not count first word and last line so initial value is 1
    char ch;

    fin.seekg(0,ios::end); ///bring file pointer position to end of file
    size=fin.tellg(); ///count number of bytes till current position for file pointer

    fin.seekg(0,ios::beg); ///bring position of file pointer to beginning of file

    while(fin)
    {
    fin.get(ch);
    if(ch==’ ‘||ch==’\n’)
    word++;

    if(ch==’\n’)
    line++;
    }

    cout<<"Lines="<<line<<" "<<"nWords="<<word<<" "<<"nSize="<<(size/word)<<" "<<"n";
    fin.close(); //closing file

    return 0;

    }

  2. Sir
    I am new to programming. I am learning basics from your site. They really help me a lot. Could you please tell me what “story.txt” mean? Is it the file name? Should that particular file be open? can i do this with any file from my computer? does it require path directory?

  3. how about if you wanted to present in a column all the individual words and in the next column it displays the number of characters in each individual word?

  4. Hi,

    I want calculate only length text from line in file. Can you please me. Actually i have used strlen() but it calculating spaces from line.

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