C Program to Count Lines, Blank Lines, Lines Ending with Semicolon

This C Program Collect Statistics of a Source File like Total Lines, Total no. of Blank Lines, Total no. of Lines ending with Semicolon.

Here is source code of the C Program to Collect Statistics of a Source File like Total Lines, Total no. of Blank Lines, Total no. of Lines ending with Semicolon. The C program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below.

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/*
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 * C Program to Collect Statistics of a Source File like Total Lines,

 * Total no. of Blank Lines, Total no. of Lines ending with Semicolon

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 */
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#include <stdio.h>
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#include <stdlib.h>
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void main(int argc, char *argv[])    /* Command line Arguments */

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{
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    int ncount = 0, ccount = 0, scount = 0, blank = 0;

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    char ch;
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    FILE *fp;
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    fp = fopen(argv[1], "r");
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    if (fp == NULL)
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    {
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        perror("Error Occured");
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    }
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    else
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    {
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        while(1)
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        {
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            ch = fgetc(fp);
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            if (ch == EOF)
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            {
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                break;
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            }
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            if (ch == 10)
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            {
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                ncount++;
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                if (ch = fgetc(fp) == '\n')

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                {
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                    fseek(fp, -1, 1);        /* shifting offset of the file to previous position */

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                    blank++;
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                }
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            }        
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            else if (ch == 59)
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            {
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                scount++;
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            }
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            else if (ch == '/' || ch == '*')

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            { 
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                ccount++;
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            }
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        }
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    }
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    printf("\nThe Total number of lines are %d", ncount);

    printf("\nThe Total number of Commented lines are %d", ccount);

    printf("\nThe Total number of blank lines are %d", blank);

    printf("\nThe total number of lines that end with Semicolon %d", scount);

    printf("\nThe length of Actual code is %d ", ncount-blank-ccount);

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    fclose(fp);
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}
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$ cc file8.c
$ a.out lines.c
 
The Total number of lines are 23
The Total number of Commented lines are 6
The Total number of blank lines are 4
The total number of lines that end with Semicolon 6
The length of Actual code is 13

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