Why it is not showing correct output?

Question

I tried to create a program that can count words in a sentence.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main() {
char my_sentence[]= "Hello how are you";
int length;
length = strlen(my_sentence);
int space = 0;
for (int i= 0; (i < length); i++){
if (my_sentence[i] == '\0'){
space += 1;
}
}
int total_word;
total_word =space + 1;
printf("%d",total_word );
return 0;
}
Ps: I learned python before learning C. So i tried to adapt my understanding of for loop in C from python knowledge.

Answer 1

A whitespace character ' ' differs from the null character '\0'. Use the former for comparison instead.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3696298/wondering-in-c-strings-null-white-spaces

Answer 2

Guess I confused " " with "\0". Thanks it solved the problem.

Answer 3

for (int i= 0; i<length; i++) if (my_sentence[i]==' ') space += 1;
// Keep learning & happy coding :D

Answer 4

In C and in C++ single quotes identify a single character, while double quotes create a string literal. 'a' is a single a character literal, while "a" is a string literal containing an 'a' and a null terminator (that is a 2 char array).

Answer 5

temp=int(input())
if temp >= 100:
print("boiling") did I miss sam thing her