Accessing Characters In Strings
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cctype>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
string text;
cout << "Counts words. Enter a text and terminate with a period and return:\n";
getline( cin, text, '.'); // Reads a text up to the first '.'
int i, // Index
numberOfWhiteSpace = 0, // Number of white spaces
numberOfWords = 0; // Number of words
bool fSpace = true; // Flag for white space
for( i = 0; i < text.length(); ++i)
{
if( isspace( text[i]) ) // white space?
{
++numberOfWhiteSpace;
fSpace = true;
}
else if( fSpace) // At the beginning of a word?
{
++numberOfWords;
fSpace = false;
}
}
cout << "\nYour text contains (without periods)"
<< "\ncharacters: " << text.length()
<< "\nwords: " << numberOfWords
<< "\nwhite spaces: " << numberOfWhiteSpace
<< endl;
return 0;
}
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