counting words in a line

[Buck]

hello
im trying to do one of the excercises in the book

3. Write a program that reads words entered one to a line and
counts how many words have been entered before you give
the signal word "end" to stop execution of the program.
Experiment to determine what happens if you put several
words on a line as you enter them.

i have no idea how to count them in a line

[Vermette]

hint: what separates words?

[jeffgreco13]

Well it looks like your question is simply asking for you to realize what happens when you have more than one word entered per line. So execute your program, which I'm sure you've figured out by now, and see what happens.

Hint: no matter how many words per line you put it will only be counted as one, without the proper adjustments.

Commas are your friend.

[Tallguy]

I made a program simmular to that for my compsci class
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/*Alex van der Mout
Not the best.....But still works*/

var sentence : string (100)
var num : int
var count : int := 0

get sentence : *

loop
num := index (sentence, " ")
sentence := sentence (num + 1 .. *)
count := count + 1
exit when num = 0
end loop
put "You have " ..
put count ..
put " words in you sentence."
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*NOTE* this is not the BEST way of doing it, and it doesn't end once 'end' is entered, but still counts the words because of the spaces that separte each word

[jeffgreco13]

MAN, you gotta use the syntax brackets...