计算句子中的字符数

#include<iostream>
#include"string.h"
using namespace std;
int main()
{
 char a[100];
 int i, z=0;
 cout << "请输入一个句子:" << endl;
 cin.get(a,100,'\n');
 for(i=0;a[i] != '\0'; i++)
 { 
  if((a[i]!='?'&&a[i]!=' '&&a[i]!='?'&&a[i]!='.'&&a[i]!=';')&&(a[i+1]=='?'||a[i+1]=='.'||a[i+1]=='!'||a[i+1]==';'||a[i+1]==' '))
  {
   z++;
  }
  if(a[i]==' '&&a[i+1]==' ')
  {
        continue;
        }
  
  else
  {
   continue;
  }  
 }
 cout<<"There are "<<z<<" words in the line."<<endl;
 return 0;
}