WordCount (String function)

Count words in list (String class)

[Introduced in Sirius Mods 7.9]

WordCount returns the number of words in its method object string.

Note that processing a string of words may be better accomplished with the StringTokenizer class.

Syntax

%number = string:WordCount[( [Spaces= string])]

Syntax terms

%number	A numeric variable to contain the number of words in the string method object.
string	The string that is the list of words to be counted.
Spaces	This optional, name required, argument is a set of "whitespace" characters, that is, characters that separate words. The default is the blank character. If the null string is provided, the blank character is used as the whitespace character.

Usage notes

• WordCount is the OO version of $Lstr_Words.

Examples

The following fragment:

PrintText {~="I'd like to buy the world a joke":WordCount}

produces this result:

"I'd like to buy the world a joke":WordCount=8

See also

• List of StringTokenizer methods
• Words, which produces a word sublist from a list of words
• Word, which selects a word from a list of words
• WordNumberIn and WordNumberOf, which return the word number of a "needle" word within a "haystack" list of words

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