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[lpmrhahn]

stupid problem that I can't figure out

It's a clone of the wc command in unix.

My output on a file:
characters: 157138
words: 29135
lines: 1977

WC output on a file:
characters: 157138
words: 28175
lines: 1977

as you can see only the words are different. Here is the latest reincarnation of my code. I've tried lots of other things, but they either gave me too few words, or even more than I have now.

               /* get the next character */
	while((value = fgetc(inFile)) != EOF){
                                /* is it a new line*/
		if((char)value == '\n'){
                                                /* increment line counter, charater counter*/
			lineCount++;
			charCount++;
			/* i is 0 if this is the first occurence of a new line, then increment wordCount */
                                                if(i == 0)
				wordCount++;
			i++;
		}
		if((char)value == ' '){
			if(k == 0)
				wordCount++;
			k++;
			charCount++;
		}
		if((char)value != ' ' && (char)value != '\n'){
			charCount++;
                                                /*found a new character, reset i and k*/
			i = 0;
			k = 0;
		}
	}

I had code for a tab check too, but it didn't help either so I took it out of this one.

[quzah]

With word count, you usually want something like:

while( x < strlen( buf ) && isspace( buf[x] ) ) x++; /* skip all preceeding white space */
if( buf[x] )
{
    /* we're at the start of a word */
    word++;
}
while( x < strlen( buf ) && !isspace( buf[x] ) ) x++; /* move through the word */
/* we've just finished with a word */

Something like that usually does the trick.