Hello,

I am relatively new to C++ and really need help with learning how to read character from a file and depending on the character will out it into the appropriate file it will sort work like a c++ compiler does a compile will compile code that doesn't have comment marker like the // or /// or /**/ marker so i want to simulate that by outputting code that has the comment marker into a comment.txt file and any other source code into a Code.txt file.

Below is the source code of what i have, so the code compile but it get caught in the while loop and doesn't exit. So maybe there is someone out who can help with this i would surely appreciate it.

P.S. Also not only does it get stuck in the while loop it outputs using cout zero instead of the char value.

// Summary

/*******************************************************
* Abstract: Program will read an external source *
* file and create two output files, *
* one with non comments (Code.txt) *
* and the other with only the *
* comments (Comment.txt). *
* *
********************************************************/

#include <iostream> //allows us to perform input and output
#include <stdio.h>
#include <iomanip> //defines a set of manipulators that can affect to both input and output streams of the iostream hierarchy
#include <fstream> //allows us to open file from memory
#include <string> //allows us to use string data type

using namespace std;

int main()
{
char ch, prev;

cout << "Welcome to Program #5! We will attempt to read the source code of another " << endl;
cout << "program, and create two output files, one with only the comments, and one " << endl;
cout << "with only the source code." << endl;
getchar(); // pause

cout << endl;

ifstream inFile;
ofstream outFile;

// open files
inFile.open ( "D:\\Documents and Settings\\Willie Johnson Jr\\My Documents\\AAA_Consulting Projects\\AAA_Kasamba\\Client - want2climb\\InSourceCode.txt" );
outFile.open ( "D:\\Documents and Settings\\Willie Johnson Jr\\My Documents\\AAA_Consulting Projects\\AAA_Kasamba\\Client - want2climb\\Code.txt" );
outFile.open ( "D:\\Documents and Settings\\Willie Johnson Jr\\My Documents\\AAA_Consulting Projects\\AAA_Kasamba\\Client - want2climb\\Comment.txt" );

// process file
inFile.get ( ch );

prev = ch;

while ( !inFile.eof ( ) )
{
inFile.get ( ch );
while (prev != '*' && ch != '/')
{
prev = ch;
cout << prev ;
cout << ch << "cout 1";
outFile << ch;
}

if (ch == '/')
{
prev = ch;
inFile.get ( ch );
if (ch == '*')

outFile << ch;
cout << ch << "cout 2";
}

else
{
outFile << ' ';
cout << ' ' << "cout 3";
}

inFile.get ( ch );
}

//close files
inFile.close ( );
outFile.close ( );

cin.get( );
cin.get( );
return 0;

}