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[mac]

write a program to count the total number of characters in a series of 10
words that you enter, and compute the average word lenght.

[Tony]

use length(text:string) to get the length of the string. Then add them all up and divide by total number of words.

[mac]

what is the code bro

[Tony]

come on man, learn to read outside the code box.

code:

length(text)

where text is the word. and this function outputs the lenght of it.

so

code:

var text:string := "tony" var l:int l := length(text) put l

This will output 4 since word "tony" is 4 characters long.

Understand now?

[Dan]

or you can do it the realy cheep way with getch

ie.

code:

var num:int:=0 var key:string(1) loop         getch(key)         num += 1 end loop

well you will have to put in some if's to stop it.

i dont know why i posted this becuse tony's way is a lot better, oh well

[Tony]

I think dan is doing some gargabe posts just to make himself look better

lol

though if you're to use getch() then it to exit it should be something like this:

code:

loop getch(l) if l="Q" then exit else num:=num+1 end if end loop

though this way you can't use capital Q in any of your words...