From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-04-19T23:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: How to count a word in a line

Hi --

On 4/19/07, Yusuf Celik <ycelik@oytek.com.tr> wrote:
> Sorry made a mistake
> line=gets.chomp
> cnt = 0
> line.split.each {
>   |v|
>   if v == 'Hi' then
>      cnt +=1
>   end
> }
> puts "#{cnt}"

You could do:

line.scan(/\bHi\b/).size

(or \s instead of \b if you want it to be spaces instead of word
boundaries [which can also be hyphens and other punctuation]).


David

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