str_word_count

  • There is no native way to count the number of words in a Ruby string. Instead we would use the String#scan method to split a string based on a regular expressionw word boundary, and find the length of the results.

    PHP

    print str_word_count("hello world");
// => 2

    Ruby

    puts "hello world".scan(/\w+/).length
# => 2

    see also

← str_split strchr →

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