Challenge: write a code in any language to count newlines, words and characters in a text file.

Question

wc (short for word count) is a command in Unix-like operating systems.

The program reads either standard input or a list of files and generates one or more of the following statistics: newline count, word count, and byte count. If a list of files is provided, both individual file and total statistics follow.

for example, in Unix systems,

$ wc foo

gives output as,

10 50 250 foo

which means text file 'foo' has 10 newlines, 50 words and 250 characters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wc_(Unix)

Answer 1

In Python should be something like this:

lines = 0
words = 0
chars = 0

with open('file_name', 'r') as fp:
for line in fp:
wordsCount = line.split()
lines += 1
words += len(wordsCount)
chars += len(line)
print(lines, words, chars)