Thread: Word Counting

Originally Posted by cookie

I also tried to understand it! But since I am a very beggining person, I could not understand much of it! One day passed, I wrote no code! I felt like I forgot anything I learned up to that point so I decided to write a program that includes all the others I've done! But the program doesn't work!

The problem with this is that it keeps telling me I have 1 word even if I write whole pages! One word if I type anything, 0 words if I type nothing!

As you see, I have an integer called characters! That was supposed to count the characters in my text! I forgot that also!

Here is the code, it is driving me crazy and it is on my nerves since I can't figure out the problem why it tells me I have 1 word when I have many!

I would also appreciate some help on character counting

I also posted this on another thread, my mistake as it is 3:23AM when I am writing this!

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

#define OUT 0
#define IN  1

int main()
{
	        /* while(1)
	           {
               */
	int x, state, words, lines, tabs, characters, char_num, letter_num, blanks;
	state = OUT;
	words = lines = tabs = characters = blanks = char_num = letter_num = 0;
	
	while((x = getchar()) != EOF)
	{
		++ char_num;   /* counts all char's, of any kind */
                if (x == '\n')
			++lines;
		else if (x =='\t')
			++tabs;
		else if (x == ' ')
			++blanks;
                else
                        ++letter_num;  /* counts just the letters */

		if (x == ' '|| x == '\n'|| x == '\t')   /* no else on this line */
			state = OUT;
		else if (state == OUT)
		{
			state = IN;
			++words;
		}
	}
	printf("You have &#37;d words:\n", words);
	printf("You have %d lines:\n", lines);
	printf("You have %d tabs :\n", tabs);
	printf("You have %d blanks:\n", blanks);
        printf("You have %d characters\n", char_num);
        printf(" and %d letters.\n", letter_num);
         	*/ }
                */
}

Note the changes in your code.

How does that look and run?

I fixed the problem where it didn't want to count the words but got into another where it gives me off results at letters! It counts characters, blanks, tabs, lines and all the others right but it counts the letters off!

Here, I will post the code

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

#define OUT 0
#define IN  1

int main()
{
	printf("HELLO! THIS IS A BETTER VERSION OF THE UNIX PROGRAM CALLED wc!\n");
	printf("THIS PROGRAM TAKES THE ENTER KEY AS A CHARACTER SO EVERYTIME YOU PRESS ENTER IT WILL GIVE YOU A CHARACTER PLUS!"\n);
	
        while(1)
	{
		int x, state, words, lines, tabs, chars, blanks, letters;
		state = OUT;
		words = lines = tabs = chars = blanks = letters = 0;
	
		while((x = getchar()) != EOF)
		{
			++chars;
			switch(x)
			{
			case ' ':
				++blanks;
			break;
			case '\t':
				++tabs;
			break;
			case '\n':
				++lines;
			break;
			
			}
			if (x == ' ' || x == '\t' || x == '\n')
				state = OUT;
			else if (state == OUT)
			{
				state = IN;
				++words;
			}
			else
				++letters;	
		}
		printf("You have &#37;d word(s)\n", words);
		printf("You have %d letter(s)\n", letters);
		printf("You have %d character(s) in total:\n", chars);
		printf("You have %d line(s)\n", lines);
		printf("You have %d tab(s)\n", tabs);
		printf("You have %d blank(s)\n", blanks);
	}
}

It gives me like 1, 2, 3 or 4 letters less than I have in the text!

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

#define OUT 0
#define IN  1

int main()
{
	while(1)
	{
		int x, state, words, lines, tabs, chars, blanks, letters;
		state = OUT;
		words = lines = tabs = chars = blanks = letters = 0;
	
		while((x = getchar()) != EOF)
		{
			++chars;
			if (x == ' ')
			{
				++blanks;
				++words;		
            }
			else if (x == '\n')
			{
				++lines;
				++words;          }
			else if (x == '\t')
				++tabs;
			else
				++letters;
			if (x == ' '|| x == '\n'| x == '\t')
				state = OUT;
			else if (state == OUT)
				state = IN;
		}
		
		printf("You have &#37;d word(s)\n", words);
		printf("You have %d letter(s)\n", letters);
		printf("You have %d character(s) in total:\n", chars);
		printf("You have %d line(s)\n", lines);
		printf("You have %d tab(s)\n", tabs);
		printf("You have %d blank(s)\n", blanks);
	}
}

/* my output
You need motivation
Motivation helps you lean a lot
You have done it good
^Z
You have 14 word(s)
You have 60 letter(s)
You have 74 character(s) in total:
You have 3 line(s)
You have 0 tab(s)
You have 11 blank(s)
*/

Note the changes
EDIT: I cant manage a good indendation, because of different editor.


ssharish2005