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help with total words in a sentence and total amount of each letter
Author:  asianrandy [ Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:03 pm ]
Post subject:  help with total words in a sentence and total amount of each letter
help with total words in a sentence and total amount of each letter. lm closed to finising this assignment.

code:

var sentence : string
put "Enter a sentence"
get sentence : *
put sentence, " has ", length (sentence), "letters" % total letters in the entire sentence
for i : 1 .. length (sentence) % the longest word you can write in the sentences.
put " total words in the sentence"
put "total amount of each letter"
end for
Author:  Tony [ Wed Dec 03, 2008 2:22 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:help with total words in a sentence and total amount of each letter
length(sentence) would count the number the characters (including spaces and punctuation!), not letters.

You might find the index() function to be useful.
Author:  asianrandy [ Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:09 am ]
Post subject:  RE:help with total words in a sentence and total amount of each letter
do i change length to count and make another line for length(sentence).
Author:  asianrandy [ Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:09 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:help with total words in a sentence and total amount of each letter
i got the letters of the alphabets and i don't know the code to put it, to find the total words in a sentence and total amount of each letter.
code:

var word : string
put "Enter a sentence"
get word : *
put word, " has ", length (word), " including spaces and punctuation! " % total letters in the entire sentence
var alpha := "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYZ......abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz"
for rep : 1 .. length (word)
    if index (alpha, word(rep)) not= 0 then
    end if
end for
Author:  Tony [ Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:36 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:help with total words in a sentence and total amount of each letter
code:

var alpha := "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWYZ......abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwyz"

That would count periods as letters.

Also
code:

if index (alpha, word(rep)) not= 0 then
end if

You are not doing anything if the condition matches, although you've got the right idea. You just need a counter.

As for the number of words in a sentence -- if it's a fair assumption that words are separated by a single space, then maybe you can count the number of spaces to figure out how many words they separate.

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