calculation of words , sentences and paragraph from the essay entered by the user?

Question

write a program to take entry of 'essay' from the user. this essay will contain all special charasters and quotation marks and all other characters. wap to calculate total number of words , total number of sentences and total number of paragraphs. also calculate total number of special characters?

Answer 1

I can't believe you would expect someone to write a program for you, so I am assuming that you are asking the correct way to tackle the problem.

Break the problem down into smaller, manageable problems:

1) Define what a word is (a string of uninterrupted letters)

2) Work out a way of counting those items (e.g. you could start at the beginning of the input, look for how many interruptions to strings of letters there are)

3) Define what a sentence is (a string of words, ended by a period '.')

4) Work out a way of counting those items (e.g. you could count the number of periods preceeded by at least one word)

And so on.