skipping spaces...

[tetraflare]

im writing a program that tokenizes a sentance and then tells how many letters / punctuation marks are in the sentance.

my problem lies where i try to count the letters. when ever my program hits a space it stops. so in essance, its only hitting the first word

here is my whole code.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
#include <iomanip>
using std::skipws;  

#include <cstring>

int main()
{



char phrase[50] = {'\0'};
char *tokenPtr;
int x;
int y = 0;
int count = 0;
int count2 = 0;
cout<<"Enter a phrase to be counted and what ever else..\n";
cin.getline (phrase , 50);

cout<<"The sentance entered is....\n";
cout<<phrase<<endl;



tokenPtr = strtok(phrase, " ");

while(tokenPtr != NULL)
{
tokenPtr = strtok(NULL , " ");
count++;
}

cout<<"there are "<<count<<" words in your phrase \n";

 

for (int i = 0; i <50; i++)
{
	if(phrase[i] == '\0')
	{
		break;

	}
count2++;
}

cout<<"number of letters in the phrase is "<<count2<<endl;



return 0;


}

[Hammer]

The strtok() function places \0 into your array after every word, so when you do this later on:
if(phrase[i] == '\0')
you exit the loop after the first word.

To solve the problem, either avoid strtok() or make a second copy of your array before letting strtok() mangle it.

[tetraflare]

i tried what you said, and i made a copy, but now everytime i run it, it just says my phrase has 50 letters in it(which is the number of elements in both arrays]

if you could post some working examples, maybe i could better understand what you are showin me

[Hammer]

Does this help.

#include <iostream>
#include <cctype> // for isalnum()
#include <cstring> // for strlen()

using namespace std;

int main(void)
{
  char s[50] = "This is a test";
  int len;
  cout <<s <<endl;
  cout <<"chars in the array: " <<sizeof (s) <<endl;
  cout <<"strlen(s): " <<(len =strlen(s)) <<endl;

  int Counter = 0;  
  for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)
  {
    if (isalnum(s[i])) Counter++;
  }
  
  cout <<"Letters/Numbers : " <<Counter <<endl;
  return(0);
}


/*
This is a test
chars in the array: 50
strlen(s): 14
Letters/Numbers : 11

*/

To make a copy of the string, you need to use strcpy(). Did you do that?