C Program to Count the Total Number of Words using Command Line Argument

This C Program counts total number of words in the sentence using command line argument.

Here is source code of the C Program to Count the total number of words in the sentence using command line argument. The C program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.

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 * C Program to Count the Total Number of Words in the Sentence

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 * using Command Line Argument
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#include <stdio.h>
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int main(int argc, char *argv[])
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    int i = 0;
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    /* If no sentence is given in the command line */

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    if (argc == 1)
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        printf("\n No sentence given on command line");

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        return;
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    }
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    else
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    {
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        printf("\nThe words in the sentence are:");

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         * From argv[1] to argv[argc -1] calculate the number of arguments

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        for (i = 1;i < argc;i++)
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        {
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            printf("\n%s", argv[i]);
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         }
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        printf("\n\nTotal number of words:");

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        printf(" %d", argc-1);
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    }
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}
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$ gcc arg1.c
$ a.out Welcome to C Class
 
The words in the sentence are:
Welcome
to
C
Class
 
Total number of words: 4
 
a.out
 
No sentence given on command line

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