Write a program to print a histogram of the lengths of words in its input. It is easy to draw the histogram with the bars horizontal; a vertical orientation is more challenging.

 
#include <stdio.h>
 
#define MAXWORDLEN 10
 
int main(void)
{
  int c;
  int inspace = 0;
  long lengtharr[MAXWORDLEN + 1];
  int wordlen = 0;
 
  int firstletter = 1;
  long thisval = 0;
  long maxval = 0;
  int thisidx = 0;
  int done = 0;
 
  for(thisidx = 0; thisidx <= MAXWORDLEN; thisidx++)
  {
    lengtharr[thisidx] = 0;
  }
 
  while(done == 0)
  {
    c = getchar();
 
    if(c == ' ' || c == '\t' || c == '\n' || c == EOF)
    {
      if(inspace == 0)
      {
        firstletter = 0;
        inspace = 1;
 
        if(wordlen <= MAXWORDLEN)
        {
          if(wordlen > 0)
          {
            thisval = ++lengtharr[wordlen - 1];
            if(thisval > maxval)
            {
              maxval = thisval;
            }
          }
        }
        else
        {
          thisval = ++lengtharr[MAXWORDLEN];
          if(thisval > maxval)
          {
            maxval = thisval;
          }
        }
      }
      if(c == EOF)
      {
        done = 1;
      }
    }
    else
    {
      if(inspace == 1 || firstletter == 1)
      {
        wordlen = 0;
        firstletter = 0;
        inspace = 0;
      }
      ++wordlen;
    }
  }
 
  for(thisval = maxval; thisval > 0; thisval--)
  {
    printf("%4d  | ", thisval);
    for(thisidx = 0; thisidx <= MAXWORDLEN; thisidx++)
    {
      if(lengtharr[thisidx] >= thisval)
      {
        printf("*  ");
      }
      else
      {
        printf("   ");
      }
    }
    printf("\n");
  }
  printf("      +");
  for(thisidx = 0; thisidx <= MAXWORDLEN; thisidx++)
  {
    printf("---");
  }
  printf("\n       ");
  for(thisidx = 0; thisidx < MAXWORDLEN; thisidx++)
  {
    printf("%2d ", thisidx + 1);
  }
  printf(">%d\n", MAXWORDLEN);
 
  return 0;
}