Exercise: wc For The Poor

Write a program that reads from standard input and counts characters, words, and lines. It prints the results on standard output. (Words are separated by one or more spaces, tabulators, or linefeeds.)

$ ./wc-poor
word1 word2 word3
word4 word5
^D        <--- EOF (on Unixen; Windows needs ^Z)
lines=2 words=5 chars=30

Optional: take into account error scenarios and corner cases. For

example:

• What if input starts with a space?

• What if there are multiple separators between two words?