Counting words in a string - c programming

Question

I need to write a function that will count words in a string. For the purpose of this assignment, a \"word\" is defined to be a sequence of non-null, non-whitespace characte

Answer 1

#include

int main()   
{    
char str[50];    
int i, count=1;  
printf("Enter a string:\n");    
gets(str);    
for (i=0; str[i]!='\0'; i++)   
        {
        if(str[i]==' ')    
                {
                count++;
                }
        }
printf("%i\n",count);    
}