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Re: Number of Words in a String

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg102521] Re: Number of Words in a String
• From: Pillsy <pillsbury at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:34:34 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <h5r8b5$l4q$1@smc.vnet.net>

On Aug 11, 3:58 am, Gregory Lypny <gregory.ly... at videotron.ca> wrote:

> Is this the simplest way to find the number of words in a string?  
[...]
>         Length[ReadList[StringToStream["The cat in the hat."], Word]]

I would use StringCount:

StringCount["Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of
their country.",
  LetterCharacter..]

will return 16. You can tweak the pattern if you want to, say, treat
strings of digits as words as well.

Cheers,
Pillsy