Thread: help showing amount of whitespace and characters

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    help showing amount of whitespace and characters

    can someone help me how to output things like percent of whitespace or characters please?

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    I can help you conceptually, but without any code of your own I don't feel very motivated to write any myself.

    Conceptually: read from some input one character at a time, testing whether it's whitespace or not, incrementing running totals accordingly. Then do some math.

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    i need to input a string and then i need the program to differentiate between what is numbers, letters, whitespace, and all that stuff

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    Quote Originally Posted by mattz714 View Post
    i need to input a string and then i need the program to differentiate between what is numbers, letters, whitespace, and all that stuff
    yea we understand what you have to do

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    a loop and if statement
    that should get you started

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