Counting characters, words, length of the words and total length in a sentence

Question

I have to write a script that takes a sentence and prints the word count, character count (excluding the spaces), length of each word and the length. I know that there exist

Answer 1

echo $mystring | wc -w

or

echo $mystring | wc --words

will do a word count for you.

You can pipe each word to wc:

echo $token | wc -m

to store the result in a variable:

mycount=`echo $token | wc -m`
echo $mycount

to add to the total as you go word by word, do math with this syntax:

total=0
#start of your loop
total=$((total+mycount))
#end of your loop
echo $total