Tutorial 4 Section A (b) [count and print]

// http://pastebin.com/u/TheWhiteFang
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int count(const string& input) //function defined to count the blank spaces

{
    int spaces = 0;

    for (int i = 0; i < input.size(); i++){
        if (input[i] == ' '){ //we can access each character in a string
            ++spaces;
        }
    }
    return spaces;
}


int main(){

    string name = " ";



    cout << "Please enter a string:\n";
    getline(cin, name);
    cout << endl;

    cout <<"Your entered string is: "<< name <<endl <<endl;//partA

    int countspace = count(name);

    cout << "Number of white-space characters" << " is " << countspace << "\n\n";









    return 0;

}