计算机统计字符数,计算文件流中的字符数(Counting characters in a file stream)

I'm trying to make a function how_many(), which counts the number of characters of a certain type, say "\n" or ",", in a file stream. Here is my (failed) attempt:

int how_many(char mychar, anifstream myfile){

int result;

while(!myfile.eof())

{

if(myfile.get()==mychar){result=result+1;}

}

myfile.close(); // Closes the filestream "my file"

return result;

}

First question: is "\n" a character or a string? (If so, then I should make the first input a string instead of a character)

Second question: can you explain the resulting error message? (or alternatively, directly point out the misuse of syntax in my code):

warning: result of comparison against a string literal is unspecified

(use strncmp instead) [-Wstring-compare]

note: candidate function not viable: no known conversion from 'const char [2]' to

'char' for 1st argument