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I also use a Regex expression to count words, which returns the same number of words as MS Word. I wrap the Regular Expression in a String extension method to make it easy to use.public static class StringExtensions{ /// /// WordCounts Regular Expression /// ...
17 Oct 2011Pete O'Hanlon 3 alternatives
Over the last couple of days I've seen numerous examples of people posting about how to count words in a sentence. Disturbingly, these postings recommend suggest counting the number of spaces in the sentence and use that as the basis of a word count.You may be asking why this is a problem. Well,...
This is less expensive:For any of the next strings, it gives 8:"Mr O'Brien-Smith arrived at 8.30 and spent \t $1,000.99"" Mr O'Brien-Smith arrived at 8.30 and spent \t $1,000.99""Mr O'Brien-Smith arrived at 8.30 and spent \t $1,000.99 "" Mr O'Brien-Smith arrived at 8.30 and...
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