Thread: Reading whole string

Hi guys,

This program is supposed to count string length from the whole file, then count number of words and finally count average word length of all the words in file.

I seem to be having a problem with reading every line from a text file. So, the problem is that: it counts the words correctly, but length is being counted only from the first line of text file and it's being counted with every space and symbol.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#define EIL 80

int main()
{
    FILE *file;
    char delim[] = " ,.!:;?\n";
    char line[EIL];
    char *words, *ptr;
    int ch;
    float length, word_count=0, words_average=0;

    file = fopen ("file.txt", "r");

    if (file==NULL)
        printf ("\nError\n\n");
    else
    {
    while ((ch=fgetc(file)) !=EOF)
    {    fgets(line, EIL, file);
        ptr = line;

    if(words!=NULL)
            {
                length=0;
                words=strtok(ptr, "");
                length=strlen(words);
                length++;
            }

    while ((words = strtok(ptr, delim)) !=NULL )
          {
           word_count++;
           ptr = NULL;
          }

     }
        words_average=length/word_count;

         printf("Length: %.0f  \nCount: %.0f  \nAverage word length: %.2f\n\n", length, word_count, words_average);
        fclose(file);
    }
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

Input file:

Code:

 One ; Two Three : Four
Five Six!
Seven Eight

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

output screen isn't giving proper result
here is a question that I had posted earlier. It may be helpful.

Look in the documentation for strtok() ... I think you'll find you're not using it correctly.

Also there's a much easier way to count words... using isspace() ... Basically you just count the spaces between the words...