Word Count

[Brandon]

I know there is a way to count the number of words in a string, but I have searched the forums and cannot find any examples or requests. Does anyone happen to know how?

[Joshtek]

1. Insert the String Parser 2 (SP2) object - it should come with one of the bonus packs
2. On start of frame, add " " as a delimiter to SP2
3. Set the source string of SP2 to your string
4. Use the "get number of elements" function of SP2

And yes, this has been asked before (but, to be fair, it was on the old forum).

[Brandon]

Thanks, and sorry, I forgot to check the old forum.

[LIJI]

Adding more non-letter (anything but for A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and other signs that you want to count as a letter, like ' or `) will make it better.
You do not have to worry about "empty words", if someone uses 2 spaces for example, SP2 ignores them.

[Angel]

Maybe regex extension is better way to count word.
Try using "[[:alnum:]]+" in the regular expression field.

[Brandon]

The reason I needed that is because I am making an online typing game in which a person can only type three words. After they type three words, it goes to the next person in the game and they add on with three more words. Just using a delimiter of " " works fine for this purpose.