Thread: help concering counting of words in one sentc..

Hi Again
i got the following prog so far.
An example of how it works is as follow

Enter a paragraph with less than 99 characters.

Hi there. How are you? I guess you are fine.

the number of sentences in the paragraph are: 3
the number of words in the paragraph are: 10


But i would like to know how can i count the number of words in each sentence, instead of in the entire paragraph.

Please help
Thank You.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#define max_char 100

main(){
 
char   para[max_char];
 int     len_sent,i,count,count_sent,illegal,sentence;

illegal = sizeof(para)-1;

printf("Please enter a paragraph with less than %d characters\n",illegal);

fflush(stdin);

fgets(para,max_char,stdin);

len_sent = strlen(para);

  count_sent=0;
  for (i=0; i<len_sent; i++) {
     if (para[i]== '.' || para[i]=='?' || para[i]=='!')
     count_sent++;
  }

printf("the number of sentences are: %d\n", count_sent );

 count=1;
 for(i=0; i<len_sent; i++) {
   if (para[i] == ' ')
   count++;
 }

printf("The number of words in the paragraph are %d\n",count);

}

Code tags added by Hammer