Count the words on a line. Words are separated by one or more spaces.
Input
A single line of text.
Output
The number of whitespace-separated words.
Word Count
Easystrings
Examples
Example 1
- Input
the quick brown fox
- Output
4
Four words.
Example 2
- Input
hello
- Output
1
One word.
Example 3
- Input
a b c
- Output
3
Repeated spaces still separate just three words.
Constraints
- The line has at least one word and at most 10^4 characters.
Hints
Reveal hint 1
Splitting the line on whitespace gives you the list of words — its length is the answer.
Reveal hint 2
Most languages ignore leading, trailing and repeated spaces when splitting on whitespace.
Reference solution (spoiler — try it yourself first)
Approach
Split the line on runs of whitespace and count the resulting words.
print(len(input().split()))
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