This C++ Program which counts the number of lines in a file. The program creates an input file stream, reads a line on every iteration of a while loop, increments the count variable and the count variable is printed on the screen.
Here is source code of the C++ program which counts the number of lines in a file. The C++ program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.
/*
* C++ Program to Count lines in a file
*/
#include
#include
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int count = 0;
string line;
/* Creating input filestream */
ifstream file(“main.cpp”);
while (getline(file, line))
count++;
cout << "Numbers of lines in the file : " << count << endl; return 0; } $ g++ main.cpp $ ./a.out Numbers of lines in the file : 21