Question

I have been set a task of creating a c# console text analysis program. The program allows the user to enter a sentence word by word a single full stop is the end of the sentence a double full stop is to break the loop and give the analysis of the text

I have the program counting words and sentences correctly.

My question is: How can I change my code so that the program will not count full stops as a character?

Below is my code thus far

 case "1":

    string UserSentence="";
    string newString="";
    string UserWord;
    int SentenceCount=1;
    int WordCount=0;
    double CharCount=0;

    Console.WriteLine("You have chosen to type in your sentance(s) for analysis.\nPlease input each word then press enter.\n\nUse one full stop to end the sentence.\nUse two full stops to finish inputting sentences");
    while (true)
        {
            UserWord = Console.ReadLine();
            WordCount++;
            UserSentence = UserSentence+UserWord;


                if (UserWord == "..")
                    {
                        CharCount=CharCount-2;
                        WordCount--;
                        break;
                    }

                if (UserWord == ".")
                    {
                        CharCount=CharCount-1;
                        WordCount--;
                        SentenceCount++;
                    }
        }

    foreach (char c in UserSentence)

        {
            if (c ==' ')
            continue;
            newString += c;
        }
        CharCount = newString.Length;
        Console.WriteLine("Their are {0} characters",CharCount);
        Console.WriteLine("Their are {0} Sentences",SentenceCount);
        Console.WriteLine("Their are {0} Words",WordCount);
    break;

I have tried to correct the character count by subtracting 2 or 1 depending on the amount of full stops however it does not work

Thanks for any help in advance.

Answer 1

Here you are simply overwriting the value of CharCount, discarding all the subtraction you did earlier:

CharCount = newString.Length;

It can be changed to:

CharCount = CharCount + newString.Length;

In order to give the correct result.

There are other options, such as counting the number of . in the sentence, replacing all the . in a sentence in an empty string before getting its length and many more.

Note on style: in C#, local variables are normally camelCase, not PascalCase.