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Suppose my input sentence is:

"My friends who live in California are good. The people who work in my team are good."

My output will be:

my is present 2 times
in is present 2 times
are is present 2 times
good is present 2 times


While doing it with UNSTRING, I need to how many words are there present in the sentence.
But my input is given by user. So I do not know while coding that how many words will be present in the input sentence.
Please help to achieve this...

I'm not sure UNSTRING is a good choice here. Your sample input has two delimiters -- space and period. What other delimiters are allowed -- such as comma, semicolon, colon, question mark, exclamation point? Your program should find the next delimiter, get the word from the input variable into a holding variable, and then look at the word array to see if you've already got that word in the array. If not, add it to the array (you'll need to track how many entries you have in your word array), then go find the next delimiter. If I were doing this, I'd probably make a copy of the input and make the copy all lower case so capitalization doesn't cause any issues (your sample has My and my but they are counted together even though they aren't the same in EBCDIC).

It is Master the Mainframe competition time, although that could be coincidence

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ApexNC (Thu Aug 24, 2017 4:45 pm)

in my books it is called cheating ...
in the master of mainframes rules and regulations it is clearly stated that ...

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When I challenged someone (elsewhere) previously, they replied that "you're allowed a mentor, and everyone else has a mentor. I have no mentor, so...". Anything actually in the rules on mentoring?

I like the "original" followed by "100% original"

sparrrow wrote:Suppose my input sentence is:

"My friends who live in California are good. The people who work in my team are good."

My output will be:

my is present 2 times
in is present 2 times
are is present 2 times
good is present 2 times

No, "my" is present once, and "My" is present once.

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