Cpp - Count words and white space characters.

Introduction

The following code shows how to count words and white space in a line of text.

A word is the maximum sequence of characters containing no white space characters.

Demo

#include <iostream> 
#include <string> 
#include <cctype>            // Macro isspace() 
using namespace std; 

int main() //  w  w w  . java 2s . c  om
{ 
    string header("     **** Counts words   ****\n"), 
           prompt("Enter a text and terminate" 
                  " with a period and return:"), 
           line( 60, '-'), 
           text;                  // Empty string 

   cout << header << endl << prompt << endl 
        << line   << endl; 
   getline( cin, text, '.');     // Reads a text up to 
                                 // the first '.' 

   // Counts words and white space characters 
   int  i,              // Index 
         nSpace = 0,     // Number of white spaces 
         nWord  = 0;     // Number of words 
   bool fSpace = true;  // Flag for white space 

    for( i = 0; i < text.length(); ++i) 
    { 
       if( isspace( text[i]) )  // white space? 
       { 
           ++nSpace;  fSpace = true; 
       } 
       else if( fSpace)    // At the beginning of a word? 
       { 
           ++nWord;   fSpace = false; 
       } 
    } 
   cout << line                 // Outputs the result. 
         << "\nYour text contains (without periods)" 
         << "\n           characters: " << text.length() 
         << "\n                words: " << nWord 
         << "\n         white spaces: " << nSpace 
         << endl; 
   return 0; 
}

Cpp - Count words and white space characters.

Introduction

Demo

Result

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