The block of text below the source code should be saved to a file named 'text.txt' in the same location where the program will reside.
/* CExplorer - passing a pointer to structure. This code */
/* also introduces 'ctype.h' functions that assess bytes */
/* to determine what their attribute is. We also read */
/* lines from a pre-defined text file, and derive byte */
/* character statistics */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h>
/* must be present in same location as program */
#define DATAFILE "./text.txt"
#define STRINGLEN 128
/* there can be more categories */
/* but these are enough for now */
struct byte_categories {
int file_size;
int num_lines;
int ch_islower;
int ch_isupper;
int ch_isdigit;
int ch_isspace;
int ch_ispunct;
};
void parse_input_line(char *, struct byte_categories *);
int main(void) {
char input_line[STRINGLEN];
struct byte_categories bcats;
FILE *fileptr;
fileptr = fopen(DATAFILE, "r"); // "r" = read file
if (fileptr == NULL) {
perror("fopen() to read ");
return(-1);
}
bcats.num_lines = 0; bcats.ch_islower = 0; bcats.ch_isupper = 0;
bcats.ch_isdigit = 0; bcats.ch_isspace = 0; bcats.ch_ispunct = 0;
bcats.file_size = 0;
while (fgets(input_line, STRINGLEN - 1, fileptr) != NULL)
parse_input_line(input_line, &bcats);
fclose(fileptr); // we need to close what we opened
printf("\n");
printf("%s contains %d lines ", DATAFILE, bcats.num_lines);
printf("and %d bytes.\n\n", bcats.file_size);
printf("%5d lower-case letters\t", bcats.ch_islower);
printf("%5d upper-case letters\n", bcats.ch_isupper);
printf("%5d digits\t\t\t", bcats.ch_isdigit);
printf("%5d whitespace\n", bcats.ch_isspace);
printf("%5d punctuation\n\n", bcats.ch_ispunct);
return(0);
}
// we're returning the per-byte statistics through the
// "struct byte_categories" pointer *bcats
void parse_input_line(char *input_line, struct byte_categories *bcats) {
int x;
int str_len;
str_len = strlen(input_line);
bcats->file_size += str_len;
bcats->num_lines++;
for (x = 0; x < str_len; x++) {
if (islower(*input_line) != 0) bcats->ch_islower++;
if (isupper(*input_line) != 0) bcats->ch_isupper++;
if (isdigit(*input_line) != 0) bcats->ch_isdigit++;
if (isspace(*input_line) != 0) bcats->ch_isspace++;
if (ispunct(*input_line) != 0) bcats->ch_ispunct++;
input_line++; // sequentially access each element of the string
}
}
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