How to countstring input word by word at a time

[Misbahu]

I was given an exercise to write a program that read strings of input, after which the program display how many words it received, how many of the words received begin with vowels, consonants and others(non consonant or vowel). I know this may sound stupid but I am a beginner, everything went right until I bumped into this exercise. Please I need help on how to read string input word by word at a time and what character does it begin with.
thanks

[ne555]

std::string word;
while( std::cin>>word ){
   //...
}

[Smac89]

In addition to the above:

create a string that contains all vowels. Then you can do:

if (isalpha(word[0])
{
    if (vowels.find_first_of(word[0]) != string::npos)
    {
        // increment vowels counter
    }
    else // increment consonant counter
}
else // increment other counter 

[symbit]

In addition, you could determine what type of string it is by using a switch statement to determine it, and have it return an enum like so:

enum LetterType{ TYPE_CONSONANT, TYPE_VOWEL, TYPE_OTHER };

StringType whatIsFirstLetter( std::string input ){
	switch( input[0] ){
	        case 'a': case 'e': case 'i': case 'o': case 'u':
                case 'A': case 'E': case 'I': case 'O': case 'U':
		return TYPE_VOWEL;

		case '.': case '/': case ',': // add remaining "other" cases
		return TYPE_OTHER;
	}
	return TYPE_CONSONANT; // if not a vowel or other, it must be a consonant
}

[EisenhowerPDF]

The words you need to read strings out are in which docuemnt format, if they are contained within a word document, maybe you can use a word document reader that can be used to read and decode word strings. Or in other way, you just use a universal document reader, that is ocr recognizer, which is fully designed to read and decode text, word and font strings.

http://www.rasteredge.com/how-to/vb-net-imaging/word-reading/
http://www.rasteredge.com/how-to/vb-net-imaging/ocr-sdk/