Python Program to Count the Number of Words and Characters in a String

This is a Python Program to calculate the number of words and characters present in a string.

The program takes a string and calculates the number of words and characters present in the string.

1. Take a string from the user and store it in a variable.
2. Initialize the character count variable to 0 and the word count variable to 1.
3. Use a for loop to traverse through the characters in the string and increment the character count variable each time.
4. Increment the word count variable only if a space is encountered.
5. Print the total count of the characters and words in the string.
6. Exit.

Here is source code of the Python Program to calculate the number of words and characters present in a string. The program output is also shown below.

string=raw_input("Enter string:")
char=0
word=1
for i in string:
      char=char+1
      if(i==' '):
            word=word+1
print("Number of words in the string:")
print(word)
print("Number of characters in the string:")
print(char)

1. User must enter a string and store it in a variable.
2. The character count variable is initialized to zero and the word count variable is initialized to 1 (to account for the first word).
3. The for loop is used to traverse through the characters in the string.
4. The character count is incremented each time a character is encountered and the word count is incremented only when a space is encountered.
6. The total count of characters and the words in the string is printed.

 
Case 1:
Enter string:Hello world
Number of words in the string:
2
Number of characters in the string:
11
 
Case 2:
Enter string:I love python
Number of words in the string:
3
Number of characters in the string:
13

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