Question

How to count the total number of punctuation characters in a string with C++

Answer 1

#include <iostream>

int main(void) {
    std::string str= "C++ is a general-purpose programming language.";    
    int count = 0;  

    for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++) {  
        if (str[i] == '-' || str[i] == ',' || str[i] == ';' || str[i] == '.' || str[i] == ':' ||   
            str[i] == '!' || str[i] == '\'' || str[i] == '\"' || str[i] == '?') {  
                count++;  
        }  
    }  
    std::cout << count;  

    return 0;
}





/*
run:

2

*/

 

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