As part of my course, I have to learn C using Turbo C (unfortunately).
Our teacher asked us to make a piece of code that counts the number of characters, words and sentences in a paragraph (only using printf, getch() and a while loop.. he doesn't want us to use any other commands yet). Here is the code I wrote:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
void main(void)
{
clrscr();
int count = 0;
int words = 0;
int sentences = 0;
char ch;
while ((ch = getch()) != '\n')
{
printf("%c", ch);
while ((ch = getch()) != '.')
{
printf("%c", ch);
while ((ch = getch()) != ' ')
{
printf("%c", ch);
count++;
}
printf("%c", ch);
words++;
}
sentences++;
}
printf("The number of characters are %d", count);
printf("\nThe number of words are %d", words);
printf("\nThe number of sentences are %d", sentences);
getch();
}
It does work (counts the number of characters and words at least). However when I compile the code and check it out on the console window I can't get the program to stop running. It is supposed to end as soon as I input the enter key. Why is that?
int ch;
int flag;
while ((ch = getch()) != '\r'){
++count;
flag = 1;
while(flag && (ch == ' ' || ch == '.')){
++words;//no good E.g Contiguous space, Space at the beginning of the sentence
flag = 0;;
}
flag = 1;
while(flag && ch == '.'){
++sentences;
flag=0;
}
printf("%c", ch);
}
printf("\n");