I am trying to create a program which :

1. counts the number of the words

2. counts the length of the words from a file but

My problem is that I notice something that I did not expected the file has four words words but when it counts the length of words the program prints a random number 77

The file :

vasilis
giorgos
anastasia
nikos

code :

#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>

int main ()
{
    FILE *fp ;

    fp=fopen("C:\\Users\\TOSHIBA\\Downloads\\sample.txt","r");

    if (fp==NULL)
    {
        printf("the file is empty");
    }
    //count the number of words
    int counter =1;
    char ch;
    while((ch=fgetc(fp)) != EOF)
    {
       if (ch=='\n')
       {
             counter;
       }
    }

    fseek(fp,0,SEEK_SET);

    //count the length of words

    int length[counter];
    char ch1;
    int counter1 = 0 , i=0;

    while( (ch1 = getc(fp))!= EOF )
    {
        if (ch1 == '\n')
        {
            length[i]=counter1;
            i  ;
            counter1=0;
            continue;
        }
        counter1  ;

    }

    // print the length of every word

    for (i = 0; i < counter; i  )
    {
        printf("\n%d",length[i]);

    }
    return 0;
}

CodePudding user response：

The program cannot read the number of charectars in the last word as there is no \n at the end of that word. The code should be modified like this- enter image description here