For no particular reason I wrote an algorithm to count how many words in a string. I wrote it and it seemed pretty complicated for such a simple thing. What do you think?Code:// counts the words in a string by // counting the spaces in it #include <iostream.h> #include <string.h> int main () { char foo[500]; // buffer string int spaces = 0; // amount of spaces cin.getline(foo, 500); cout << endl; for(unsigned int i = 0; i < strlen(foo); i++) { if(foo[i] == ' ') { if(foo[i-1] != ' ') { spaces++; } } } if(foo[0] == ' ') { spaces--; } for(unsigned int j = (strlen(foo) - 1); j > 0; j--) { if(foo[j] == ' ') { spaces--; } else { break; } } spaces += 1; // add one to make up for no space before first word cout << "You typed " << spaces << " words\n"; return 0; }