Thread: recursive counting words

Hi, my function checks how many words are in the string,the iterative version of this function works perfect & it was too easy to do it, but with recursive ver. I have some problems - I can't understand where I do mistake
thank's

Iterative code

Code:

int CountWords(char text[])
{
	int i = 0, j = 0, k = 0;
        while(text[i])
	{
		if(text[i]!=' ')
		{
			if(!k)j++;
			k=1;
		}
		else
		{
			k=0;
		}
		i++;
}
return j;
}

Recursive version :

Code:

int RecCountWords(char text[])
{
	int i = 0;
	if(text[i] == '/0')
		return 0;
	else
		if(text[i] = ' ')
		{
			for(; text[i] = ' ';)
			{
				i++;
			}
			return (1 + RecCountWords(text + i));
			
			
		}
		else
			RecCountWords(text + i);
}

Originally Posted by poftornik

Recursive version :

Code:

int RecCountWords(char text[])
{
	int i = 0;
	if(text[i] == '/0')
		return 0;
	else
		if(text[i] = ' ')
		{
			for(; text[i] = ' ';)
			{
				i++;
			}
			return (1 + RecCountWords(text + i));
			
			
		}
		else
			RecCountWords(text + i);
}

This should cause a seg fault.

a better way to check white space is with the isspace() function.