Question: Write a program called commasperiods.c which reads through the file commasperiodsin.txt and counts the number of commas, the number of periods and the total number of characters in the file....

in C++

Extracted text: Question: Write a program called commasperiods.c which reads through the file commasperiodsin.txt and counts the number of commas, the number of periods and the total number of characters in the file. Note that the total number of characters includes whitespace. Here is a description of the program: Step1: open the file for reading Step2: declare three variables, commas, periods and total and initialize them to zero. Step3: repeat the following until the end of the file is reached 3.1) read a character from the file 3.2) increment the total 3.3) if the character is a comma then increment commas 3.4) if the character is a period then increments periods Step4: print the total number of characters, the number of commas and the number of periods. Your output should look like: Total characters : 597 Number of commas : 8 Number of periods: 4 Copy and paste your program into the box below.