C$++$ code please!

I need a function that reads an entire file that is full of names. Each name is seperated by a new line. Some of these names are made up of lots of names and contains hyphens or quotation marks, so the function needs to account for this. Lastly, the function needs to do this while incrementing a variable that keeps track of the number of total names in the file. This should keep going until the end of file is read or until the number or words exceeds $1253.$