I want to count the words in a text

Question

Hello! I want to count the words in a text, but I don’t know who to do it, can someone help me please, Thank you!
https://code.sololearn.com/cr55uA6N8JV3/?ref=app

Answer 1

Try this:

https://code.sololearn.com/cR5XWftxxZji/?ref=app

Answer 2

print(len(input().split()))

Answer 3

Jayakrishna🇮🇳

If you assume that words can contain any digit/symbol, then in the example used by Ƥŕᥲ七Ꮍųꗟ♄ ℜᥲᒎ and also included in code of Alejandra b contains symbols like,

, ? .

So, I assume that OP is saying to omit these things. But, I may be wrong...

Answer 4

first you must split the string, then get its length (number of items in an array)
use these key words

len()
split()

Answer 5

#your way by function :

txt = "Whatever Comes Out Of These Gates, We have Got A Better Chance Of Survival If We Work Together. Do You Understand? If We Stay Together, We Survive"

def count_words(txt):
count = 0
for i in txt.split() :
count+=1
return count

print(count_words(txt))

Answer 6

# The `split` method wouldn't work if in case, the word is like,

sentence = "I have 9 $ in my pocket - A guy"

# In that case, you could use,

import re
matches = re.findall(r"[a-zA-Z]+", sentence)
print(len(matches))

# If you want the whole list, then

print(list(matches))

Answer 7

Jayakrishna🇮🇳

You can do `count += i.isalpha()` instead of `count += 1`, to make it work in general!

Answer 8

@vrintle
Am not the questioner. May be wrong tag you added..!?
But In your sentence 9, $, - are also counted as words until especially said to ommit. Raw Words may contains any special chars and digits..

Answer 9

print(len(txt.split()))