Big-Data-HPC-Platform/docs/ECLStandardLibraryReference/SLR-Mods/WordCount.xml

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<sect1 id="WordCount">
  <title>WordCount</title>

  <para><emphasis role="bold">STD.Str.WordCount<indexterm>
      <primary>STD.Str.WordCount</primary>
    </indexterm><indexterm>
      <primary>Str.WordCount</primary>
    </indexterm>(</emphasis> <emphasis>source</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">
  )</emphasis></para>

  <para><emphasis role="bold">STD.Uni.WordCount<indexterm>
      <primary>STD.Uni.WordCount</primary>
    </indexterm><indexterm>
      <primary>Uni.WordCount</primary>
    </indexterm>(</emphasis> <emphasis>source </emphasis><emphasis
  role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>, locale </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">
  ] )</emphasis></para>

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    <tgroup cols="2">
      <colspec colwidth="80.50pt" />

      <colspec />

      <tbody>
        <row>
          <entry><emphasis>source</emphasis></entry>

          <entry>A string containing the words to count. Words are delimited
          by spaces.</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry><emphasis>locale</emphasis></entry>

          <entry>A null-terminated string containing the language and country
          code to use to determine correct sort order and other
          operations.</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Return:</entry>

          <entry>WordCount returns an integer value.</entry>
        </row>
      </tbody>
    </tgroup>
  </informaltable>

  <para>The <emphasis role="bold">WordCount </emphasis>function returns the
  number of words in the <emphasis>source</emphasis> string.</para>

  <para>Example:</para>

  <programlisting format="linespecific">IMPORT Std;

str1 := 'a word a day keeps the doctor away';

output(LENGTH(TRIM(Str1,LEFT,RIGHT)) - LENGTH(TRIM(Str1,ALL)) + 1);
                                 //finds eight words by removing spaces

STD.Str.WordCount(str1);         //finds eight words based on space delimiter
</programlisting>

  <para></para>
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