Thread: Unsuccessful Attempt to Count Words and Bytes in a File

The task is to count words, bytes and lines in a file.txt.
My program does not work because terminal reads:

bash-4.1$ gcc main.c functions.c -o space
bash-4.1$ ./space maggie.txt
maggie.txt LINES:1 WORDS: 5 BYTES:10

maggie.txt file:
euler jdk

terminal is supposed to read:
maggie.txt LINES:1 WORDS:2 BYTES:9

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include "functions.h"
 
/*
 *Maggie Cao
 *CS102E Fall 2012
 *Project 10
 *November 26, 2012
 *Noah Santacruz helped me with Lab 5
*/
 
 
 
int wc ( char* fileName ) /*void b/c not giving any info back*/
{
        FILE* wc= fopen (fileName, "r");
        char buffer [1024]; //**only read a junk of info not everything**//
                if (wc != NULL){
                int i=0;
                int numChars=0;
                int numSpace=0;
                        while (fgets(buffer, 1024, wc) != NULL){
                                numChars= strLength(buffer) + numChars;
                                i++;
                                numSpace=strSpace(buffer) +numSpace;
                        }
                fprintf(stdout, "%s LINES:%d WORDS:%d BYTES: %d\n",fileName,i,numSpace,numChars);
                fclose(wc);
                }
                else {fprintf (stdout, "error %s failed to read", fileName);
                }
                return 0;
                }
 
int strLength (char* string) {
        int strLength=0;
        int isNullChar=0;
                while (isNullChar==0){
                        char currentChar=string[strLength];
                        if (currentChar== '\0'){
                                isNullChar=1;
                        }
                        else { strLength=strLength+1;
                        }
                }
        return strLength;
}
 
int strSpace (char* text){
        int strSpace=0;
        int isNullChar=0; /*can be the same as strLength*/
                while (isNullChar==0){
                        char currentChar=text[strSpace];
                        if (currentChar == ' ' || currentChar== '\0'){
                                isNullChar=1;
                        }
                        else {strSpace=strSpace+1;
                        }
                }
        return strSpace;
}

Please help!

Would you consider an iterative, rather than a recursive solution?