From: Bira <u.alberton@...>
Date: 2006-04-29T02:48:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Counting words

On 4/28/06, Jamal Mazrui <Jamal.Mazrui@fcc.gov> wrote:
> I've research this but am still having trouble getting it right ....
> Can someone give me code that counts the number of words in a string via
> RegExp and MatchData objects?  I think I'd like a word to be defined as
> contiguous characters surrounded by white space (or the start/end of the
> string), though am open to other interpretations.
>
> Jamal
>

I'm a bit of a nuby, and this is my first post to the list, but I
think the following one-liner will do the job:

number_of_words = string.split(/\s/).length

I haven't tested it because I'm at work without access to a Ruby interpreter :(.

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