将字符串中每个单词的首字母大写并预先形成单词计数

Question

Beginner here learning C. I need to input a paragraph of text and then write two functions.

the first function capitalizes every first letter of the text. (This Is An Example)

the second function needs to count all the words in the paragraph.

First step I am taking is inputing the paragraph, I started by just adding the first two sentences. How do I format this paragraph into this string without writing it all on one line? Any help is appreciated. Thanks

int main (void)
{

char prose[] = "She should have died hereafter;
                There would have been a time for such a word.";

printf("%s\n",prose);




return 0;
}

This is the while loop I am trying to use to detect where the non alphabetic symbols are.

while (prose[i])
{
    if (isalpha(prose[i]))
        printf("%c is alpha\n",prose[i]);
             else

                 printf("%c is not alpha\n",prose[i]);
                i++;

        }

Any help on where to move from here?

Answer 1

Adjacent string literals in C are concatenated into a single string, so you can easily split it across lines like this:

char prose[] = "She should have died hereafter;\n"
               "There would have been a time for such a word.";

(Eventually you might want to read the prose from a file or perhaps stdin , instead of hard-coding it into your program.)

To capitalize letters, iterate through the string one character at a time and capitalize every alphabet letter if the previous character was not an alphabet letter (or whatever your criterion is). See ctype.h for helpful functions.

For counting words, you can do something similar, but instead of modifying the string you just increment a counter every time you hit a new word.

In both cases check that your code handles the first and last words correctly.

Answer 2

I guess you want this:

    char prose[] = "\
She should have died hereafter.\n\
There would have been a time for such a word.\n\
";
    printf("%s\n",prose);

\\n is for an actual new line in the string, \\ at the end of line lets the statement continue on the next line.