Re: Number of Words in a String
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- Subject: [mg102519] Re: [mg102483] Number of Words in a String
- From: Patrick Scheibe <pscheibe at trm.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:34:12 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi, a simple version is Length@StringSplit["The cat in the hat."] Cheers Patrick On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 04:02 -0400, Gregory Lypny wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Is this the simplest way to find the number of words in a string? > Seems a little complicated, and I can't seem to turn it into a > function because when I replace the string with the argument > placeholder myString_ I get an error message saying that a string is > expected in that spot. > > Length[ReadList[StringToStream["The cat in the hat."], Word]] > > Returns 5. > > Gregory >
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- From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny@videotron.ca>
- Number of Words in a String