Quite a while ago, my friend had a task to write a program which would count how many words does a text contain. He was unsure how to tackle the problem. He wasn’t allowed to use any system function. He had to write all of the code by himself. As I love problems, I decided to do it for him.

The code is written in C# although he had to write in C.

static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            char[] polje;
            string recenica = "";
            string path = "C:\\Users\\some\\Desktop\\sample_file.txt";
            try
            {
                StreamReader str = new StreamReader(path);
                int counter = 0;

                while (!str.EndOfStream)
                {

                    recenica = str.ReadLine();
                    Console.WriteLine(recenica);
                    polje = recenica.ToCharArray();
                    for (int i = 0; i = 97 && (int)polje2[index + 1] = 64 && (int)polje2[index + 1] = 32 && (int)polje2[index] = 58 && (int)polje2[index] <= 64))
            {
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }