Re: Word counting

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

wave wrote:

> I'm trying to read a file of which each sentence consists of a line of
> words, separated obviously by one or more blank spaces. I'm trying to
> get it to read these lines of the file and count the number of words
> that have one letter, two letters, and so on, up to a maximum of
> fifteen letters.

If this isn't homework, you could use PragmARC.Word_Input, which reads a 
text file a word at a time:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jrcarter010/pragmarc.htm

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Jeff Carter
"Sir Lancelot saves Sir Gallahad from almost certain temptation."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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