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Given a string str and the task is to count palindrome words present in the string str.

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Input : Madam Arora teaches malayalam Output : 3 The string contains three palindrome words (i.e., Madam, Arora, malayalam) so the count is three.  Input : Nitin speaks malayalam Output : 2 The string contains two palindrome words (i.e., Nitin, malayalam) so the count is two.

Method 1:
countPalin() function counts the number of palindrome words by extracting every word of the string and passing it to checkPalin() function. An extra space is added in the original string to extract last word. 
checkPalin() function check the word palindrome. It returns 1 if word is palindrome else returns 0. It makes sure that empty strings are not counted as palindrome as the user may enter more than one spaces in between or at the beginning of the string. 
 

C++
/*C++ program to count number of palindrome words in a sentence*/ #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std;  // Function to check if a word is  // palindrome  bool checkPalin(string word)  {      int n = word.length();      transform(word.begin(), word.end(), word.begin(), ::tolower);      for (int i = 0; i < n; i++,n--)      if (word.at(i) != word.at(n - 1))          return false;          return true;  }   // Function to count palindrome words  int countPalin(string str)  {              // to check last word for palindrome      str = str + " ";           // to store each word      string word = "";      int count = 0;      for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++)      {          char ch = str.at(i);                   // extracting each word          if (ch != ' ')              word = word + ch;          else {              if (checkPalin(word))                  count++;              word = "";          }      }           return count;  }       // Driver code  int main()  {           cout<<countPalin("Madam Arora teaches malayalam")<<endl;                       cout<<countPalin("Nitin speaks malayalam")<<endl;  }   // This code is contributed by nidhi16bcs2007 
Java
 /*Java program to count number of palindrome words in a sentence*/ class GFG {          // Function to check if a word is     // palindrome     static boolean checkPalin(String word)     {         int n = word.length();         word = word.toLowerCase();         for (int i=0; i<n; i++,n--)            if (word.charAt(i) != word.charAt(n - 1))               return false;                return true;     }          // Function to count palindrome words     static int countPalin(String str)     {                 // to check last word for palindrome         str = str + " ";                  // to store each word         String word = "";         int count = 0;         for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i++)         {             char ch = str.charAt(i);                          // extracting each word             if (ch != ' ')                 word = word + ch;             else {                 if (checkPalin(word))                     count++;                 word = "";             }         }                  return count;     }          // Driver code     public static void main(String args[])     {         System.out.println(countPalin("Madam "                   + "Arora teaches malayalam"));                            System.out.println(countPalin("Nitin "                         + "speaks malayalam"));     } } 
Python3
# Python3 program to count number of  # palindrome words in a sentence  # Function to check if a word is palindrome def checkPalin(word):     if word.lower() == word.lower()[::-1]:         return True  # Function to count palindrome words def countPalin(str):     count = 0          # splitting each word as spaces as      # delimiter and storing it into a list     listOfWords = str.split(" ")      # Iterating every element from list      # and checking if it is a palindrome.     for elements in listOfWords:         if (checkPalin(elements)):                          # if the word is a palindrome              # increment the count.             count += 1     print (count)  # Driver code countPalin("Madam Arora teaches malayalam") countPalin("Nitin speaks malayalam")  # This code is contributed  # by Ronit Shrivastava. 
C#
// C# program to count number of  // palindrome words in a sentence using System;  class GFG {  // Function to check if a word is  // palindrome  public static bool checkPalin(string word) {     int n = word.Length;     word = word.ToLower();     for (int i = 0; i < n; i++,n--)     {     if (word[i] != word[n - 1])     {         return false;     }     }     return true; }  // Function to count palindrome words  public static int countPalin(string str) {     // to check last word for palindrome      str = str + " ";      // to store each word      string word = "";     int count = 0;     for (int i = 0; i < str.Length; i++)     {         char ch = str[i];          // extracting each word          if (ch != ' ')         {             word = word + ch;         }         else         {             if (checkPalin(word))             {                 count++;             }             word = "";         }     }      return count; }  // Driver code  public static void Main(string[] args) {     Console.WriteLine(countPalin("Madam " +                 "Arora teaches malayalam"));      Console.WriteLine(countPalin("Nitin " +                        "speaks malayalam")); } }  // This code is contributed by Shrikant13 
JavaScript
<script>  /*Javascript program to count number of palindrome words in a sentence*/  // Function to check if a word is  // palindrome  function checkPalin(word)  {      var n = word.length     word = word.toLowerCase();       for (var i = 0; i < n; i++,n--)      if (word[i] != word[n - 1])          return false;          return true;  }   // Function to count palindrome words  function countPalin( str)  {              // to check last word for palindrome      str = str + " ";           // to store each word      var word = "";      var count = 0;      for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++)      {          var ch = str[i];                   // extracting each word          if (ch != ' ')              word = word + ch;          else {              if (checkPalin(word))                  count++;              word = "";          }      }           return count;  }       // Driver code  document.write( countPalin("Madam Arora teaches malayalam") + "<br>");              document.write( countPalin("Nitin speaks malayalam"));   // This code is contributed by itsok. </script>   

Output: 
3 2

 

Time Complexity: O(n2), where n is the size of the given string.
Auxiliary Space: O(n), where n is the size of the given string.
 

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