Finding words in files

bioagentX · 2004-03-06T20:29:49

I want to find the amount of times a certain word occurs in a file. For example, there is a text file kennedy.txt which has the following contents: Ask not, what your country can do for you; Ask what you can do for your country! John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Speech, 1961 I''m trying to make a program that writes how many times the word "you" appears. My code so far however stops searching each line of the file after it finds the first occurance of the word "you" in that line. In other words, I''m getting that the word "you" occurs only twice when it in fact occurs four times. Here is my code: int main() { ifstream inFile("kennedy.txt", ios::nocreate); if(inFile.fail()) { cout<<"File could not be opened"; return 0; } else { String S; int lineNum = 0; int charNum = 0; int uAmt = 0; while(getline(inFile, S)) { cout<<">"<<S<<endl; lineNum++; charNum+= S.length(); if(S.find()==npos) ; else { uAmt++; } } cout<<"There are "<<lineNum<<" lines."<<endl; cout<<"There are " <<charNum<<" characters."<<endl; cout<<"The world \"you\" occurs "<<uAmt<<" times."; cout<<"Done!"; } return 0; }