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WordCount

Count the number of words in a string.

Declaration

Source position: strutils.pp line 217

function WordCount(const S: string; const WordDelims: TSysCharSet)
                   : SizeInt;

Arguments

Name Description
S String to search in.
WordDelims Characters to be used as word delimiters.

Function result

Number of words in the string.

Description

WordCount returns the number of words in the string S. A word is a non-empty string of characters bounded by one of the characters in WordDelims.

The predefined StdWordDelims constant can be used for the WordDelims argument.

Errors

None.

See also

Name Description
WordPosition Search position of Nth word in a string.
StdWordDelims Standard word delimiter values.
ExtractWord Extract the N-th word out of a string.
ExtractWordPos Extract a word from a string, and return the position where it was located in the string.