Python program to count the number of spaces in string

Given a string, the task is to write a Python program to count the number of spaces in the string.

Examples:

Input: "my name is geeks for geeks"
Output: number of spaces = 5

Input: "geeksforgeeks"
Output: number of spaces=0

Approach:

• Input string from the user
• Initialize count variable with zero
• Run a for loop i from 0 till the length of the string
• Inside for loop, check if s[i] == blank, then increment count by 1
• Outside for loop, print count

Example 1:

Python3

# create function that
# return space count
def check_space(string):

    # counter
    count = 0

    # loop for search each index
    for i in range(0, len(string)):

        # Check each char
        # is blank or not
        if string[i] == " ":
            count += 1

    return count

# driver node
string = "Welcome to geeksforgeeks"

# call the function and display
print("number of spaces ",check_space(string))

Output:

number of spaces  2

Example 2:

Python3

# create function that
# return space count
def check_space(string):

    # counter
    count = 0

    # loop for search each index
    for i in string:

        # Check each char
        # is blank or not
        if i == " ":
            count += 1

    return count

# driver node
string = "Welcome to geeksforgeeks, Geeks!"

# call the function and display
print("number of spaces ",check_space(string))

Output:

number of spaces  3

Example 3: Using the count() function.

Python3

# Create function that
# return space count
def check_space(Test_string):
    return Test_string.count(" ")


# Driver function
if __name__ == "__main__":
    Test_string = "Welcome to geeksforgeeks, Geeks!"

    # Call the function and display
    print(f"Number of Spaces: {check_space(Test_string)}")

Output: 

Number of Spaces: 3