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Count Words In String

The simplest way to count words in a string using Ruby and regular expressions by splitting the string at each space.

On Friday, May 2nd 2008 at 11:20 PM

By Andrei Pociu (View Profile)

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class String
  def WordCounter
    split(/\S+/).size
  end
end

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by umani on Monday, May 19th 2008 at 05:19 PM

please send the code of gui and filehandling in java

by kawan on Friday, June 6th 2008 at 06:46 AM

you can help me to search the programming. it something like ruby 1.8.6

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