Writing a word count program in C

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In this program a word is defined by any sequence of characters that does not include a "-" " " "\n" ":" "\t" So howdy-hi:slig would be three words in this program.

Increment

while ( ( iochar = getchar() ) != EOF ) {

if (iochar == '\n')
{
line++;
word++;
}

if (iochar == ':' || iochar == '-' || iochar == '\t' || iochar == ' ')
{
word++;
} 

Instead of incrementing word everytime a whitespace is encountered I know I need to skip all the extra white space characters that can separate two words.

So that "hello - my : name is Earl." counts 5 words instead of 8.

Thank you appreciate it.

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Writing a word count program in C