Amazon Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers






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void word_count(const char line[], int *wc, int *ch, int *lines)
{
  char *str=line;
  while(*str)
  {
    (*ch)++;
    if(*str == ' ')(*wc)++;
    else if(*str == '\n')(*lines)++;
  }
}

- xing August 02, 2007 | Flag Reply
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Kind of amazed that amazon will ask such simple questions....

- Mayank April 18, 2008 | Flag Reply
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Even though this question is easy, it has a lot of edge cases. You should think twice when questions look simple.

- vodangkhoa April 19, 2008 | Flag Reply
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Totally agree - the answer above doesn't cover corner cases at all - what about a string which has all whitespaces?

- tb April 20, 2008 | Flag
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Exactly. separator could also be , . ; ...
, in 100,000 is not separator any more.
Difficult question actually.

- lele August 23, 2009 | Flag


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