Build a Sentence Analyzer - Step 7

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Tell us what’s happening:

i dont know why its not working n saying Your getWordCount function should return the correct word count for an empty string, or a string only with spaces.

Your code so far

function getVowelCount(sentence) {
  const vowels = "aeiou";
  let count = 0;

  for (const char of sentence.toLowerCase()) {
    if (vowels.includes(char)) {
      count++;
    }
  }
  return count;
}

const vowelCount = getVowelCount("Apples are tasty fruits");
console.log(`Vowel Count: ${vowelCount}`);

function getConsonantCount(sentence) {
  const consonants = "bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz";
  let count = 0;

  for (const char of sentence.toLowerCase()) {
    if (consonants.includes(char)) {
      count++;
    }
  }
  return count;
}

const consonantCount = getConsonantCount("Coding is fun");
console.log(`Consonant Count: ${consonantCount}`);

function getPunctuationCount(sentence) {
  const punctuations = ".,!?;:-()[]{}\"'–";
  let count = 0;

  for (const char of sentence) {
    if (punctuations.includes(char)) {
      count++;
    }
  }
  return count;
}

const punctuationCount = getPunctuationCount("WHAT?!?!?!?!?");
console.log(`Punctuation Count: ${punctuationCount}`);


// User Editable Region
const getWordCount = (sentence) =>
{
  let count = 0;
  if (sentence === '')
  {
    count = 0;
  }
  else{
    count = 1;
  }
  let spaces = ' ';
  for (const words of sentence)
  {
    if(spaces.includes(words))
    {
    count++;
  }
  }
  return count
}
console.log(getWordCount("When are you gonna start learning to code?"))
// User Editable Region

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Challenge Information:

Build a Sentence Analyzer - Step 7

GitHub Link: freeCodeCamp/curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/workshop-sentence-analyzer/66e2f06b191e305c00574e4d.md at main · freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp · GitHub

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test your function

console.log(getWordCount(""))
console.log(getWordCount(" "))
console.log(getWordCount("  "))
console.log(getWordCount("   "))
console.log(getWordCount("    "))
console.log(getWordCount("     "))

how many words are there, how many does your function say there are?