Re: Number of Words in a String
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- Subject: [mg102523] Re: [mg102483] Number of Words in a String
- From: Thomas Dowling <thomasgdowling at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:34:57 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello, 1. One possibility is to use StringSplit For example: In[105]= Length[StringSplit["The cat in a hat."]] Out[105] = 5 2. You may wish to include a delimiter In[107]= StringSplit["The cat in a hat, (not on the mat)??.",Except[WordCharacter]..] Out[107]= {The,cat,in,a,hat,not,on,the,mat} (and take the Length) 3. Another way that works which I found in the documentation is StringCases In[113]= Length@StringCases["The cat in a hat, (not on the mat)??",WordCharacter..] Out[113]= 9 Tom Dowling On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:02 AM, 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>
- Number of Words in a String