Words are generaly seperated by spaces, so look for spaces between charaters.

More precisely, look for spaces ONLY after characters.
That will help you a great deal with tabs and incorrect spacing.

Do you want to do this in C or C++. For C++ see the code snippet at:
http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet225.html

With C you have to slug it out in the trenches! Not too hard to do, just labor! A word can end with a space, tab, period, comma, semicolon, newline, ? or ! and so on. Simply count all the isalpha(characters) that are followed by on of those endings.

Thanks a lot guys, I actually thought of spaces at first but then as i though deeper i got a bit confused on how i would write the code, but it is done now and works fine. I decided to store the file in an array and check if the character proceeding the 1 in question was a space, tab or newline, and then counted this as a word, i have also tried to take into account a word at the end of the file that may not have a leading character. This may not be so accurate but it works fine on all of my tests i have done. Thanks for the tips guys, if anyone wants me to post teh code just let me know in this thread

I was using c++ by the way (Dev-C++) vegaseat, and what are you doing up so early lol :p oh wait different time zone, my bad lol

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can you post the code?

>can you post the code?
No, because this thread is two years old.