用户输入字符串的耦合算法

Question

First of all i am new to coding and stackoverflow if i have obvious mistakes that i miss please forgive me.

Hello, i am writing c++ code and i need to get sentence from user and do a couple things with it.

1. How many letter does your string have?
2. How many words does your string have?

I am getting string with this code :

string str;
cout << "Please enter your string."<<endl;
getline(cin,str);
cout<< "Your string is : "<<a<<endl;
cout<<"Length of your string is : "<<str.length();

I am getting the length of string with str.length but it counts the spaces too my question is, how i determine the "space"?

Answer 1

Since i dont have enough of reputations to post a comment,i am writing down here:

Though @KABoissonneault is perfectly correct,but i would suggest giving a look at strtok too. strtok can tokenize your string based on any delimiter(space being your case)