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Description

Aims to count how many words in the infile

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By	Raymond Li
Level	Beginner
User Rating	4.6 (23 globes from 5 users)
Compatibility	C
Category	Strings
World	C / C++
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Source Code

/*****************************************/
/* Program Name : A Simple Count String */
/* Description : Aims to count how many */
/*        words in the infile  */
/* Programmer  : Raymond Li    	 */
/*****************************************/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MAX_LENGTH 256
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
 char inword[MAX_LENGTH];
 int word_count = 0;
 FILE *infile;
 if (argc < 2)
 {
 printf("Format : wordcnt <filename>\n");
 exit( 1 );
 }
 /* open the infile */
 if ((infile = fopen( argv[1], "rt" )) == NULL)
 {
 printf("Cannot open input file - %s\n", argv[1] );
 exit( 1 );
 }
 /* read the string and count it while not end of file */
 while( !feof(infile) )
 {
 fscanf( infile, "%s", inword );
 word_count++;
 }
 /* print the result */
 printf( "There are %d word(s) in the file %s\n", word_count, argv[1] );
 /* close the infile */
 fclose(infile);
 return(0);
}