12-19-2009
I am new to this so thanks for letting me know where I was going wrong on the forum. (I wish I was young enough to still be getting homework lol.)
I am trying to get a script to ask for a sentence when you run it and then take what your answer and echo to screen the number of letters in the sentence, aswell as the number of words in the sentence and finally the number of blank spaces in the sentence.
a example been
Please Enter Required Sentence --> Hello My Name Is Danielle.
They Are This Many Letters In The Sentence = 21
They Are This Many Words In The Sentence = 5
They Are This Many Blank Spaces In The Sentence = 4
This is what I have so far
echo "Please Enter Required Sentence --> \c"
read answer
echo "They Are This Many Letters In The Sentence = " `wc -c $answer`
echo "They Are This Many Words In The Sentence = " `wc -w $answer`
But I cant find anything at all to count blank spaces. I dont think it is possible to do it with the "wc" command any help would be great.
I hope this makes more sense its 3am in the morning here and I am on my third night shift so telling the time is hard enough never mine working on unix.
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