Counts the words in a string.

GetWordCount(cString[, cDelimiters])

Parameters

cString

Specifies the string whose words will be counted.

cDelimiters

Optional. Specifies one or more optional characters used to separate words in cString. The default delimiters are space, tab, carriage return, and line feed. Note that GetWordCount( ) uses each of the characters in cDelimiters as individual delimiters, not the entire string as a single delimiter.

 Return Value

Numeric

 Remarks

GetWordCount( ) by default assumes that words are delimited by spaces or tabs. If you specify another character as delimiter, this function ignores spaces and tabs and uses only the specified character.

If you use "AAA aaa, BBB bbb, CCC ccc." as the target string for GetWordCount( ), you can get all the following results.

cString = "AAA aaa, BBB bbb, CCC ccc."
? GetWordCount(cString)               && 6 - character groups, delimited by " "
? GetWordCount(cString, ",")               && 3 - character groups, delimited by ","
? GetWordCount(cString, ".")               && 1 - character group, delimited by "."

 See Also

Reference

GETWORDNUM( ) Function

Other Resources

Functions
Language Reference (Visual FoxPro)