Counts the number of times each word appears in a given paragraph and prints them to their console.

Count Words in Paragraph.c.md

Count Words in Paragraph.c

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <ctype.h> // added to use tolower()

// Function prototype
int *count_words_in_paragraph(char *paragraph);
void print_word_counts(int *word_counts);

int main() {
    // Get the paragraph from the user
    char paragraph[1024];
    printf("Enter a paragraph: ");
    fgets(paragraph, sizeof(paragraph), stdin);

    // Count the words in the paragraph
    int *word_counts = count_words_in_paragraph(paragraph);

    // Print the word counts
    print_word_counts(word_counts);

    // Free the memory allocated for the word counts
    free(word_counts);

    return 0;
}

int *count_words_in_paragraph(char *paragraph) {
    // Convert the paragraph to lowercase and split it into words
    char *words = strdup(paragraph);
    for (char *word = strtok(words, " "); word != NULL; word = strtok(NULL, " ")) {
        // Convert the word to lowercase
        for (int i = 0; word[i] != '\0'; i++) {
            word[i] = tolower(word[i]);
        }
    }

    // Create a dictionary to store the word counts
    int *word_counts = calloc(256, sizeof(int)); // 256 represents all possible ASCII characters

    // Iterate over the words and count their occurrences
    for (char *word = strtok(words, " "); word != NULL; word = strtok(NULL, " ")) {
        // Increment the count for the word
        word_counts[word]++;
    }

    // Free the memory allocated for the words
    free(words);

    // Return the dictionary of word counts
    return word_counts;
}

void print_word_counts(int *word_counts) {
    // Iterate over the dictionary and print the word counts
    for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
        if (word_counts[i] > 0) {
            printf("%c: %d\n", i, word_counts[i]);
        }
    }
}

Associated Context
Type	Code Snippet ( .c )
Associated Tags	Word Counting String Manipulation Dictionary Data Structure Character Pointers Memory Allocation Text Processing Console Output Function Arguments Word Count Dictionary Lowercase Conversion String Tokenization User Input Memory Deallocation Standard Input/Output Main Function
💡 Smart Description	Counts the number of times each word appears in a given paragraph and prints them to their console. This code snippet takes a paragraph as input from the user, counts the number of times each word appears in the paragraph, and then prints the word counts. It converts the paragraph to lowercase, splits it into words, and uses a dictionary to store the
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