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From Peter Fein
Subject Function to return number of words in a string?
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Msg-id 20050509112128.02077a86@layout.pfein.org
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Responses Re: Function to return number of words in a string?  ("Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org>)
Re: Function to return number of words in a string?  (Peter Fein <pfein@pobox.com>)
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Hiya-

I'm looking for a function to return the number of words in a string,
split on whitespace.  I'm coming from python, so I may just write it in
that but I wanted to check first.  In python, one would write:

s="some string or other"
len(s.split())

Thanks!

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