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The Regex method uses comma, full stop, hyphen, and apostrophe as word separators. The problem with this is that these characters are not universally used as separators. The hyphen is used to join two words. Could I suggest the following?string input = "Mr O'Brien-Smith arrived at 8.30 and...
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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