counting the number of words in a file

Hi

I have file called test.txt which looks like this:

aaa , bb.ccc

I need my program to count the number of words in the file, but not to count the spaces, comma's, fullstops etc. For example there is 3 words in the above file.

I know fscanf(fptr, "%s", name) will read a string up to a space or a newline. fptr is my FILE pointer and name is an array of char.

Can someone please help?

A different option is using fgetc to get a byte from the file. Rembember when a word starts and increase a counter when the word has ended.

you wouldn't be chaeting on your c programming assignment at t.u. would you? :)