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Detect if space is pressed 3 times?

In my program I need to detect if the spacebar is pressed 3 times and then replace it whit a \n.

I am using getchar for getting my input and detecting one space is no problem but if I enter 3 spaces to check it does not work. Any help is very appreciated

This is my code so far witch works perfectly fine if I only check one spacebar but if I enter 3 of the it will not detect it

if (c == ' ')
{
putchar('\n');
}
Solution

  • You can count the number of consecutive spaces. Something like:

    int c;
int spaces = 0;
while((c = getchar()) != EOF)
{
    if (c == ' ')
    {
        ++spaces;
        if (spaces == 3)
        {
            putchar('\n');
            spaces = 0;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        spaces = 0;
    }
}