#program Homework 4 gaps
#program to count gaps between words
#One or more spaces is defined as a gap

sentence = ("G", "o", "o", "d", " "," ","t", "o", " ", "g", "o")
gapcount = 0
previousCharSpace = "FALSE"
for i in range (len(sentence)):
    if sentence[i] == " ":
        if previousCharSpace == "FALSE":
            gapcount = gapcount + 1
        previousCharSpace = "TRUE"
    else:
        previousCharSpace = "FALSE"
print ("Sentence 1: number of gaps ", gapcount)


#version 2
sentence2 = "I am  late for    class"
gapcount = 0
previousCharSpace = "FALSE"
for i in range (len(sentence2)):
    if sentence2[i] == " ":
        if previousCharSpace == "FALSE":
            gapcount = gapcount + 1
        previousCharSpace = "TRUE"
    else:
        previousCharSpace = "FALSE"
print ("Sentence 2: number of gaps ", gapcount)