[Gambas-user] Wordcount in a TextEdit

[Maximillian Von Kloisterheim]

Ron Onstenk wrote:
> sNoCR=string.replace(sTextin,"\r"," ") 'replace control character by spaces
> sNoLF=string.replace(sNoCR,"\l"," ")
> 'repeat for tabs ("\t") and any other you can enter
> 
> asWords=split(sNoLF," ")  'split on spaces
> ' count(asWords) is dirty word count 
> ' two or more spaces give also a entry on split but are empty
> 
> count=0
> for i=0 to count(asWords) ' loop array for non space entries 
>   if trim( asWords[i] ) <> "" then count=count+1
> next
> 
> 
> or use the shell command 'wc' , see 'man wc'
> 
> Ron

Thanks Ron, that did the trick a whole lot better than my efforts so far.

Regards

Max