Counting words in a string - c programming

Question

I need to write a function that will count words in a string. For the purpose of this assignment, a \"word\" is defined to be a sequence of non-null, non-whitespace characte

Answer 1

Here is another solution:

#include <string.h>

int words(const char *s)
{
    const char *sep = " \t\n\r\v\f";
    int word = 0;
    size_t len;

    s += strspn(s, sep);

    while ((len = strcspn(s, sep)) > 0) {
        ++word;
        s += len;
        s += strspn(s, sep);
    }
    return word;
}

Answer 2

Here is one solution. This one will count words correctly even if there are multiple spaces between words, no spaces around interpuncion symbols, etc. For example: I am,My mother is. Elephants ,fly away.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>


int countWords(char*);


int main() {
    char string[1000];
    int wordsNum;

    printf("Unesi nisku: ");
    gets(string);  /*dont use this function lightly*/

    wordsNum = countWords(string);

    printf("Broj reci: %d\n", wordsNum);

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}


int countWords(char string[]) {
    int inWord = 0,
        n,
        i,
        nOfWords = 0;

    n = strlen(string);

    for (i = 0; i <= n; i++) {
        if (isalnum(string[i]))
            inWord = 1;
        else
            if (inWord) {
                inWord = 0;
                nOfWords++;
            }
    }

    return nOfWords;
}

Answer 3

#include <stdio.h>

int wordcount (char *string){

    int n = 0; 

    char *p = string ;
    int flag = 0 ;

    while(isspace(*p)) p++;


    while(*p){
        if(!isspace(*p)){
            if(flag == 0){
                flag = 1 ;
                n++;
            }
        }
        else flag = 0;
        p++;
    }

    return n ;
}


int main(int argc, char **argv){

    printf("%d\n" , wordcount("    hello  world\nNo matter how many newline and spaces"));
    return 1 ;
}

Answer 4

#include<stdio.h>

int main()   
{    
char str[50];    
int i, count=1;  
printf("Enter a string:\n");    
gets(str);    
for (i=0; str[i]!='\0'; i++)   
        {
        if(str[i]==' ')    
                {
                count++;
                }
        }
printf("%i\n",count);    
}

Answer 5

I had this as an assignment...so i know this works. The function gives you the number of words, average word length, number of lines and number of characters. To count words, you have to use isspace() to check for whitespaces. if isspace is 0 you know you're not reading whitespace. wordCounter is a just a way to keep track of consecutive letters. Once you get to a whitespace, you reset that counter and increment wordCount. My code below:

Use isspace(c) to

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

int main() {
  int lineCount = 0;
  double wordCount = 0;
  double avgWordLength = 0;
  int numLines = 0;
  int wordCounter = 0;
  double nonSpaceChars = 0;
  int numChars = 0;
  printf("Please enter text.  Use an empty line to stop.\n"); 
  while (1) {
      int ic = getchar();
      if (ic < 0)    //EOF encountered
          break;
      char c = (char) ic;
      if (isspace(c) == 0 ){
      wordCounter++;
      nonSpaceChars++;
    }
      if (isspace(c) && wordCounter > 0){
      wordCount++;
      wordCounter =0;
    }
      if (c == '\n' && lineCount == 0) //Empty line
      { 
          break; 
      }
      numChars ++;
      if (c == '\n') {
          numLines ++;
          lineCount = 0;
      }
      else{
          lineCount ++;
    }
  }
  avgWordLength = nonSpaceChars/wordCount;
  printf("%f\n", nonSpaceChars);
  printf("Your text has %d characters and %d lines.\nYour text has %f words, with an average length of %3.2f ", numChars, numLines, wordCount, avgWordLength);
}

Answer 6

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>

int getN(char *);


int main(){
    char str[999];
    printf("Enter Sentence: "); gets(str);
    printf("there are %d words", getN(str));
}


int getN(char *str){
    int i = 0, len, count= 0;
    len = strlen(str);
    if(str[i] >= 'A' && str[i] <= 'z')
       count ++;


    for (i = 1; i<len; i++)
        if((str[i]==' ' || str[i]=='\t' || str[i]=='\n')&& str[i+1] >= 'A' && str[i+1] <= 'z')
        count++;


return count;
}