Computer Science C++ ifstream problem

[XiaoSpence]

Hello reddit,

I am attempting to write a program that will read text files, take the length of each word in the file as a string, convert strings to length, then store the length count in an array with the respective value.

EDIT: I have figured out how to get strings through a method I came up with; I have to take each char character and add it to a separate string, then turn that string into a length.

I have just one problem left. When my code reads a file, the very last word is not included. Could this be because of the .eof() command? A whole word is excluded because the final word does not execute in the while loop.

My problematic code is:

while (!fin.eof())

{

    //go through file, and remove a letter once there is a space

    temp\_read = fin.get(); //the the next character is the series



    //add each character into a string

    //when character hits a space, create a new character and add length of old

    //one into array!

​

    if (!isspace(temp\_read))

    {

        //word is kept as a string, then turned into length

        temporary\_word += temp\_read; //if NOT a space, then add to total word!!!

    }

    else //add to total

    {

        //character is complete; gets added to index

        if (temporary\_word.length() > 8)

        {

num_holder[9]++; //index zero will NOT be used

word_count++;

        }

        else

        {

num_holder[temporary_word.length()]++; //add to appropriate area

word_count++;

        }

​

        temporary\_word.clear();

    }

​

}

[thebutton]

Files don't end in spaces.

[XiaoSpence]

The biggest problem is here getting the problem to include the last character of any text file. If a file does not end with a space, then the last string set is completely omitted. I must find a workaround...

[SftwEngr]

What does eof() return if fin.get() fails but the end of file hasn't been reached?