Re: Number of Words in a String
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- 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)
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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