12-19-2009
Script to ask for a sentence and then count number of spaces in the sentence
Hi People,
I need some Help to write a unix script that asks for a sentence to be typed out then with the sentence. Counts the number of spaces within the sentence and then echo's out "The Number Of Spaces In The Sentence is 4" as a example
Thanks
Danielle
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