Re: Number of Words in a String
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- Subject: [mg102538] Re: Number of Words in a String
- From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:37:42 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi, > > Is this the simplest way to find the number of words in a string? I don't know if you would consider this simpler, it is straight from the documentation for StringCount: StringCount["The cat in the hat.", WordCharacter ..] > 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. I don't know what you did when turning it into a function, but this: numwords[s_String] := Length[ReadList[StringToStream[s], Word]] numwords["The cat in the hat."] seems to work alright.... hth, albert
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