Regular expression for finding a word

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I have a long string of characters as input and I want to count the number of words in that string. How can I do it through regular expression?

Posted 26-May-12 0:54am

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-26T01:02:00

Solution 1

Try:

C#

Regex word = new Regex(@"\w+");
string data = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";
Console.WriteLine(word.Matches(data).Count);

Get a copy of Expresso [^] - it's free, and it examines and generates Regular expressions.

Posted 26-May-12 1:02am

OriginalGriff

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Member 8491154 26-May-12 7:49am

Any other tool like Expresso?

OriginalGriff 26-May-12 7:56am

Probably, but that's the one I use, because it works for me!

Shahin Khorshidnia 26-May-12 12:05pm

+5 Excellent

dharan1990 · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-29T03:07:00

Solution 2

C#

string Input;
Input=Console.ReadLine();
string[] Output=Input.Split(' ');
Console.WriteLine("No of Words in Given String is {0}",Output.Length.ToString());

Posted 29-May-12 3:07am

dharan1990