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Re: Help, newbie..question concerning character analysis of an input text string

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From: Don Vining
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:00
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Gee this sounds like a classic home work problem which you would be well
advised to do yourself. You should scan the line a character at a time using
the Character class as a wrapper. There are nice methods in this class which
will be useful.
Michael Little <hypercom@c031.aone.net.au> wrote in message
news:qfbw3.7309$O_1.50063@ozemail.com.au...
> Hello,
>  I was wondering if some-one could help me, I am trying to write a short
> program to  get one sentence as a command line argument and it must return
> the following:
> 1. The number of blank characters in the entire sentence
> 2. The number of words in the entire sentence
> 3. The number of non-blank characters in the entire sentence
> 4. The average number of characters per word
> 5. The length of the longest word( in characters)
> 6. The length of the sentence( in words)
> 7. The number of capital and lowercase characters
> 8. The number of vowels and consonants.
> The input sentence can contain letters and digits, with one or more
special
> characters separating each word in the sentence, and once entered the
> program should print the above values. Any suggests as how to best handle
> this problem?
>
> I am also not sure how to determine if a character is upper or lower case:
> do they belong to different character ranges?
>
> Any help appreciated!
>
>
>
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>
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> MIchael John Little
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From: "Don Vining" <don-vining@erols.com>
Subject: Re: Help, newbie..question concerning character analysis of an input text string
Date: 1999/08/23
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