I have my c code below

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#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main() {

    ifstream infile("Test.txt");

    string words;
    cout << words << endl;
    float wordCount = 0;

    float totalWordsCharacters = 0;

    while (infile >> words) {

        wordCount  ;

    totalWordsCharacters  = words.length();
    }

    cout << "Average length of all words: " << (totalWordsCharacters / 79) <<" letters" << endl;
    return 0;
}

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there's a separate text file with 79 words and 79 lines, each word is in its own line. If i take out the while loop and put an in-text string instead of "words" like 'String ("we are the best")', everything works fine. How could i get the string of text in the separate file to be registered in the code?