Question

9.9 LAB: Count input length without spaces, periods, exclamation points, or commas

Given a line of text as input, output the number of characters excluding spaces, periods, exclamation points, or commas.

Ex: If the input is:

Listen, Mr. Jones, calm down.
the output is:

21

Answer 1

Answer:

text = input('Please enter a line of text')

text = text.replace(" ", "")

text = text.replace(".", "")

text = text.replace("!", "")

text = text.replace(",", "")

print(len(text))

Explanation:

line by line, the first line asks for input with a prompt.

the second line replaces spaces, the next one replaces periods, the next exclamation marks, the next commas. then the last line prints the total number of characters