Don't count spaces when counting words.

Pete O'Hanlon

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17 Oct 2011CPOL

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Over the last couple of days I've seen numerous examples of people posting about how to count words in a sentence. Disturbingly, these postings recommend suggest counting the number of spaces in the sentence and use that as the basis of a word count.You may be asking why this is a problem. Well,...

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Pete O'Hanlon

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A developer for over 30 years, I've been lucky enough to write articles and applications for Code Project as well as the Intel Ultimate Coder - Going Perceptual challenge. I live in the North East of England with 2 wonderful daughters and a wonderful wife.

I am not the Stig, but I do wish I had Lotus Tuned Suspension.

Don't count spaces when counting words.

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