help with total words in a sentence and total amount of each letter

[asianrandy]

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

[Tony]

length(sentence) would count the number the characters (including spaces and punctuation!), not letters.

You might find the index() function to be useful.

[asianrandy]

do i change length to count and make another line for length(sentence).

[asianrandy]

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

[Tony]

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.