preferably in C++

Item Counter Assume that a file containing a series of names (as strings) is named names.dat and exists on the computer's disk. Design a program that displays the number of names that are stored in the file. (Hint: Open the file and read every string stored in it. Each time you read a string, increment a counter variable. When you've read all the strings from the file, the counter variable will contain the number of names stored in the file.)