Question

The cost of a message depends in the number of words in the message.Given that the cost of each word is shs 20. Design a program that ask the user to enter the message and then it outputs:-
1. The number of words in the message.
2. The total cost of the message.

Answer 1

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;

char msg[200];
int n=0, i=0;

void main(){
cout<<"enter a message: ";
gets(msg);
while ((msg[i]==' ')&&(msg[i])) i++;
if ((msg[i]!=' ')&&(msg[i])) n++;
while (msg[i]){
& if ((msg[i]==' ')&&(msg[i+1]!=' ')&&(msg[i+2]!=NULL)) n++;
& i++;
}
cout<<msg<<"\n";
cout<<"the number of words is "<<n<<"\nthe price is "<<0.2*n<<"shs.\n";
}