Logic for a program to find word count

sreddy · New User Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 8 Location: Bangalore

Hi

Can any one suggest the logic for a program to find word count,

EX:

Text is : we are mainframe guys
output No words: 4

Piyu · Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 9:13 pm

I think assuming you know the max number of words you can receive, you can use the UNSTRING using space as DELIMITER with the TALLYING option. Check this link: -

publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v7v91/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cbl.doc/tpstr06e.htm

Also check this: -
www.uni.edu/coboldoc/cobrm_035.htm. Find word UNSTRING here.

acp_ajay1 · New User Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 9

Hi sreddy,

U can also take a variable of type char of length 1 and extract one by one all the characters of the string and check whether the character is space or not. Since u know the total length it should not be a problem for u.

This method is ok if u just want to count the number of words but if u want to store them separately then i suggest u go for the unstring method.

Hope this was helpful.

Regards,
Ajay