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trying to write a function that increments the number of words in a do

 
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Phantom_of_the_opera
11 Feb, 2007 - 08:19 PM
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12 Feb, 2007 - 05:23 AM
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You are taking data from a file character by character there, so you have to check for the letter which comes your way everytime you traverse a loop.

let's say if the charater is a word separator like ',' , ' ' , '.' , ':' , '?' , '!' etc. then you
can increment the word count.
On the '.' character you can increment the line count

Now how you decide your paragraph formatting will decide what your paragraph count logic will be.
If new paragraph is just one enter to go on new line then you can check for '\n' and increment paragraph count.

If you want it in a proper way then check 2 character sequence '\n' followed by '\t'. [I think first one is better].

to do these things you need some if or switches and the job is done.

Hope this will help you. smile.gif
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Is it necessary to have different function for that?

you can have a "switch" case block where you can check what is coming your way...

this is not the code but it will look something like...

CODE

char ch;
int counted =0;  //to handle multiple time counting due to "hello, "
// here , is followed by space so can create problem in counting.
while(!infile.eof())
{
   infile.get(ch);
   cout<<ch;
   switch(ch)
  {
     case '\n' : paraCount++;
     case '.'   : lineCount++;
                    wordCount++;
                    counted=1;
  }
  if((ch==' ' ||ch==';' ||ch==',' ||ch==':' ||ch==')' ||ch=='?' ||ch=='!')&&(counted==0))
  {
     wordCount++;
     counted=1;
   }
   else if((counted!=0)&&(!(ch==' ' ||ch==';' ||ch==',' ||ch==':' ||ch==')' ||ch=='?' ||ch=='!')))
   {
     counted =0;
   }
}




forgive me for any syntactical errors but hope you have got the logic there. wink2.gif
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