//Programmer: Ryan Wilson

//Dates: Jun 10

//Project: Word Counter

//Description: Counts the number of words in a user's sentence

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using System;

public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        Console.WriteLine("Word Counter");

        Console.WriteLine("Please write a sentence:");

        string sentence = Console.ReadLine(); //Set the sentence string to be the user's input

        sentence.Trim(); //Trims the sentence string to remove excess spaces at the start and end of the string

        string[] split = sentence.Split(' '); //Splits the string into substrings

        int words = 0; //Creates the integer that holds the number of words in the string 

        //for loop that makes goes by each part of the substring and counts the number of words compared to spaces

        for(int pos = 0; pos < split.Length; pos++) {

            if (split[pos] != " ") { //If the position of the split is not a space

                words++; //Add one to the number of words

            }

        }

        Console.WriteLine("There are " + words + " words."); //Output the number of words to the console

    }

}