Hi,
here is my problem: I'm writing a small program that needs to read a text file and write the words of this text as a list.
I could only come up with the little piece of code I wrote below and it's not even working. I believe the problem is on line 13 but I'm not so sure.
I would appreciate if you could tell me where the problem is and point me to the right direction.
Also, if you know a more cunning way to do what I intend please do tell me.

Thanks,

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#include<iostream>
#include<fstream>
using namespace std;
 
int main()
{
   ifstream iDic("text");
   ofstream oDic("rawDic");
   char ch;
   while (iDic.get(ch))
   {
      ch= tolower(ch);
      if (ch< 'a' || ch> 'z')
            iDic.putback('\n');
      oDic << ch;
   }
   iDic.close();
   oDic.close();
   return 0;
}

#include<iostream> #include<fstream> using namespace std; int main() { ifstream iDic("text"); ofstream oDic("rawDic"); char ch; while (iDic.get(ch)) { ch= tolower(ch); if (ch< 'a' || ch> 'z') iDic.putback('\n'); oDic << ch; } iDic.close(); oDic.close(); return 0; }

Thanks VernonDozier,
The idea was evaluate every character of a text file (say a text of a newspaper for example) and separate words. Valid words would be strings of char from 'a' to 'z' only.
At the time a space is encountered I'd make a new line. I fact if I modify the while loop and use the following code instead:


the programme does pretty much what I want but I still don't know what to do the commas, etc (that is every thing having an ascii code outside the a-z range)

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//...
if (ch < 'a' && ch > 'z')
    //...Do you understand this?

//... if (ch < 'a' && ch > 'z') //...Do you understand this?