SecretMessage agency Difficulty: easy Max Points: 10 Description SecretMessage agency provides message encoding and decoding services for secure data transfer. The first step in decoding includes removal of special characters and the whitespaces from the message, as special characters and whitespaces do not hold any meaning. Write an algorithm to help the agency find the number of special characters and whitespaces in a given message. Input The input consists of a string message, representing the message that need to be decoded by the agency. Output

SecretMessage agency

Difficulty: easy

Max Points: 10

Description

SecretMessage agency provides message encoding and decoding services for secure data

transfer. The first step in decoding includes removal of special characters and the whitespaces

from the message, as special characters and whitespaces do not hold any meaning.

Write an algorithm to help the agency find the number of special characters and whitespaces in a

given message.

Input

The input consists of a string message, representing the message that need to be decoded by

the agency.

Output

Print an integer representing the number of special characters and whitespaces present in a

given message.

Constraints

NA

Example

Input:

gasgg54@#vscsd!s*

Output:

4

Explanation

The special characters having no meaning are ('@','#';’!’,’*'].

Public Test Cases

# Input Expected Output

1 gasgg54@#vscsd!s* 4

Programming Language: C (GCC 9.2.0)

#include<stdio.h>

int main()

{

 char text[1000];

 scanf("%[^\n]s",text);

 int i=0,c=0;

 while(text[i]!='\0')

 {

 if(!(

 (text[i]>='a' && text[i]<='z') ||

 (text[i]>='A' && text[i]<='Z') ||

 (text[i]>='0' && text[i]<='9') ) )

 c++;

 i++;

 }

 printf("%d",c);

}