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Re: Number of Words in a String

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• Subject: [mg102516] Re: [mg102483] Number of Words in a String
• From: Leonid Shifrin <lshifr at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:33:35 -0400 (EDT)
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Gregory,

why don't you just use

In[1] =
wordNumber[x_String] := Length@StringCases[x, LetterCharacter ..];

In[2] =
wordNumber["The cat in the hat."]

Out[2] = 5

Regards,
Leonid


On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Gregory Lypny
<gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>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>