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Vertical Histogram

Vertical Histogram

#include<stdio.h>
#define MAXWL 20  /* Maximum length of a word */
#define MAXNO 25 /* Maximum No of words in a sentence */

int main(void)
{
	int word[MAXNO];
	int i,c,j,nc,nw;

	for(i=0;i<MAXNO;++i)
		word[i]=0;

	nc = nw = 0;

	while( (c=getchar()) != EOF)
	{
		++nc;
		if( c ==' ' || c =='
' || c =='	')
		{
			word[nw] = nc -1; /* -1 for excluding the space in the word length */
			++nw;
			nc = 0; /* resetting the word-length for the next word */
		}
	
	}

	for( i = MAXWL; i >= 1; --i)
	{
		for(j=0;j <= nw;++j)
		{
			if( i <= word[j])
				putchar('*');
			else	
				putchar(' ');
			}
	putchar('
');
	}

return 0;
}