I want to know how to count how many words are in a string.
I use strstr
to compare and it works but only works for one time
like this
char buff = "This is a real-life, or this is just fantasy";
char op = "is";
if (strstr(buff,op)){
count++;
}
printf("%d",count);
and the output is 1 but there are two "is" in the sentence, please tell me.
For starters you have to write the declarations at least like
char buff[] = "This is a real-life, or this is just fantasy";
const char *op = "is";
Also if you need to count words you have to check whether words are separated by white spaces.
You can do the task the following way
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
//...
size_t n = strlen( op );
for ( const char *p = buff; ( p = strstr( p, op ) ) != NULL; p += n )
{
if ( p == buff || isblank( ( unsigned char )p[-1] ) )
{
if ( p[n] == '\0' || isblank( ( unsigned char )p[n] ) )
{
count++;
}
}
}
printf("%d",count);
Here is a demonstration program.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
int main(void)
{
char buff[] = "This is a real-life, or this is just fantasy";
const char *op = "is";
size_t n = strlen( op );
size_t count = 0;
for ( const char *p = buff; ( p = strstr( p, op ) ) != NULL; p += n )
{
if ( p == buff || isblank( ( unsigned char )p[-1] ) )
{
if ( p[n] == '\0' || isblank( ( unsigned char )p[n] ) )
{
count++;
}
}
}
printf( "The word \"%s\" is encountered %zu time(s).\n", op, count );
return 0;
}
The program output is
The word "is" is encountered 2 time(s).