[Overview][Constants][Types][Procedures and functions] Reference for unit 'strutils' (#rtl)

WordCount

Count the number of words in a string.

Declaration

Source position: strutils.pp line 150

function WordCount(

  const S: String;

  const WordDelims: TSysCharSet

):Integer;

Arguments

S

  

String to search in.

WordDelims

  

Characters to be used as word delimiters.

Function result

Number of words in the string.

Description

WordCountreturns 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 pre-defined StdWordDelimsconstant can be used for the WordDelimsargument.

Errors

None.

See also

WordPosition

  

Search position of Nth word in a string.

StdWordDelims

  

Standard word delimiter values.

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.