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WordCount

Count the number of words in a string.

Declaration

Source position: strutils.pp line 198

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

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
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.
StdWordDelims Standard word delimiter values.
WordPosition Search position of Nth word in a string.