How to count characters from text file

[rahul bansal]

How to count characters from text file ….counting number of character occured from a file(txt)..line by line

please

[Humayan]

If you just want to count all the characters , you can do:
 

#include

#include 

int main(void)

{

 // open a text file for reading

 FILE * in_file;

 in_file = fopen("c:\programs\help\text1.txt","r");

 



 if ( ! in_file  )

 {

  printf ( "file did not openn" );

  return 1;

 }

    int numberOfCharacters = 0;

 char ch = fgetc ( in_file );

 while ( ch != EOF )

 {

        numberOfCharacters ++;

        ch = fgetc ( in_file );

 }

 printf ( "nthe number of characters is " );

 printf ( "%i" , numberOfCharacters );

 fclose ( in_file );

    return 0;

} 

[Priyansh Agrawal]

Count each line, voila: (you can pass the filename/path as the first argument)

#include 



int main(int argc,char **argv)

{

const int max=1024;

int r=0,count=0,i;

FILE *f;

char buff[max+3];



if (argc==2)

{

if ((f=fopen(argv[1],"rb"))==NULL)

{

r=2;

printf("cannot open file!n");

}

else

{

while (!feof(f))

{

buff[0]=0;

fgets(buff,max,f);

count++;



for (i=0;i


printf("Line %i, count %in",count,i);

}



fclose(f);

}

}

else

{

r=1;

printf("usage: count n");

}



return r;

}

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