From: Bira <u.alberton@...>
Date: 2006-04-29T02:49:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Counting words

On 4/28/06, Bira <u.alberton@gmail.com> wrote:
> number_of_words = string.split(/\s/).length

Eh, sorry. I meant to write:

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

The "+" is needed to cover words with more than one whitespace
character between them.

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