Lab $6$: Files streams

Objective

Practice reading and writing to files using files streams.

Requirements

$-$ Create a text file that contains some text.

$-$ Create an empty file to store the output results.

Write a program that does the following:

$-$ Print a welcome message and instructions on how to use the program. See the example output below.

$-$ The user must be allowed to enter both files' names from the console. File names variables must have char type.

$-$ Check whether both the input and output files are opened correctly or not.

$-$ Write code to read the input text file and count how many words in it$.$

$-$ Print out the result to both the output file and the console.

$-$ When running the code several times, all results must be retained in the output file.

$-$ Close all streams.

$-$ Use meaningful variable names and add comments to explain your code.

An Example Output

Welcome to file stream counting program.

To use this program you must have an input file that has text to count how many words are there!

Please enter the input file full name inclduing the file extension: input.txt

Please enter the output file full name inclduing the file extension: output.txt

The input file contains $170$ words.

Submission

$-$ Submit the source code file $(.$cpp$)$ to the course's blackboard webpage.

Evaluation Criteria

$-$ Implementing ALL lab requirements.

$-$ Writing proper comments.

$-$ The program produces the expected results.