From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-04-29T03:44:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Counting words

2006/4/28, Jamal Mazrui <Jamal.Mazrui@fcc.gov>:
> 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.

s.scan(/\w+/).size

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