counting special characters from a text file

Newbie Member
27Nov2007,04:34   #1
kamote's Avatar
i was able to create a program on how to count words from a text file but im having problems on how to count and display the "special characters" from this text file. Im referring to special characters like "." ";" "?" "!" "(" etc...

any ideas?
Go4Expert Founder
27Nov2007,09:05   #2
shabbir's Avatar
Loop through the string in the same manner as you do for the characters and add each numbers when any such character is found.