#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int Char_Count (char*);

int main()
{
  char ch;
  char line[81];
  char* ch_ptr;
  

  cout << "Enter a line of words:" << endl << endl;
  cin.getline(line, 81);

  cout << "\nEnter a character:" << endl << endl;
  ch = cin.get();



  // Skip any blanks at the beginning of the line
  for (ch_ptr = line; *ch_ptr == ' '; ++ch_ptr);
  return 0;
int Char_Count(char* ch_ptr)
{

    int  letter_count = 0
  // Process rest of line
  do      
  {
      if (*ch_ptr == ch)
      {
          ++ch_ptr;
          ++letter_count;               // Count the letter
      }
      else
          ++ch_ptr;

    // Skip the word
    //  for (; (*ch_ptr != '\0'); ++ch_ptr);     ;

    // Skip blanks after the word
     // for (; *ch_ptr == ' '; ++ch_ptr);
  }
while (*ch_ptr != '\0');  
;
cout << "\nThe line you entered has " << letter_count;
cout << " occurrences of the character " << ch << "." <<endl;

  return letter_count;
}

int Char_Count(char *szStr)
{
    int iCount = 0;
    while(*szStr++ != '\0') iCount++;
    return iCount;
}

#include <iostream>
#include <string>    //Include this for the string class functionality

using namespace std;


int main()
{
  string strInput = "";    //String to hold line of text entered
  string strStripped = ""; //String to hold the stripped text
  int nNumItems = 0;       //Int to hold the # of items in the string

  cout << "Enter a line of words:" << endl; //Prompt user for text
  cin.getline(strInput,81); //Store text in strInput w/ a max size of 81

  while(blahblah)
  {
     //Here you need to make an interator for strInput and iterate through the string
     //and use the .replace() functionality of the std::string to replace the spaces. You
     //will do this with a while loop.. to do this you will set the iterator to the begining
     //of the string and go from there ( gotta leave something for you to play with! ). Once
     //the spaces are stripped you can assign the stripped string into strStripped and then store back
     //into strInput ( or just go right to strInput )
  }//End While

  nNumItems = strInput.size();  //This will assign the number of colums associated with the string into nNumItems
                                //I.E. the # of columns = the number of items in the stripped string.

  cout << "The number of items in the string is : " << nNumItems;   //Display to the user the number of items in the string
}//End Main()

#include<iostream>

using  namespace std;

int char_count(char str[100])
{
    int x;
    for(x=0;str[x]!='\0';x++);
    return x;
}

int main()
{
char a[100];
cout<<"Enter the String : ";
cin>>a;

cout<<"\n\nNumber of Char's in given string is "<<char_count(a);

return 0;
}