counting the number of sentences in a paragraph in

Question

As part of my course, I have to learn C using Turbo C (unfortunately).

Our teacher asked us to make a piece of code that counts the number of characters, words and sentences in a paragraph (only using printf, getch() and a while loop.. he doesn't want us to use any other commands yet). Here is the code I wrote:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

void main(void)  
{  
clrscr();  
int count = 0;  
int words = 0;  
int sentences = 0;  
char ch;

while ((ch = getch()) != '\n')
{
    printf("%c", ch);
    while ((ch = getch()) != '.')
    {
        printf("%c", ch);
        while ((ch = getch()) != ' ')
        {
            printf("%c", ch);
            count++;
        }
        printf("%c", ch);
        words++;
    }
    sentences++;
}

printf("The number of characters are %d", count);
printf("\nThe number of words are %d", words);
printf("\nThe number of sentences are %d", sentences);
getch();
   }

It does work (counts the number of characters and words at least). However when I compile the code and check it out on the console window I can't get the program to stop running. It is supposed to end as soon as I input the enter key. Why is that?

Answer 1

All these solutions are incorrect. The only way you can solve this is by creating an AI program that uses Natural Language Processing which is not very easy to do.

Input:

"This is a paragraph about the Turing machine. Dr. Allan Turing invented the Turing Machine. It solved a problem that has a .1% change of being solved."

Checkout OpenNLP

https://sourceforge.net/projects/opennlp/

http://opennlp.apache.org/