Word Count

Counts characters, words, numbers, and lines.

Build

make

Usage

Pass text in via stdin:

cat wc.l | ./wc

lines     words   numbers     chars
   23        48        11       445

echo '13 black cats in a size 11.5 hat' | ./wc

lines     words   numbers     chars
    1         6         2        33

./wc        
17 frogs hopped across
the 4-lane highway.
^D

lines     words   numbers     chars
    2         6         2        43

Why?

Regular word count doesn't do numbers, mine does :)