{"id":8128,"date":"2023-03-02T01:59:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T01:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jquery-az.com\/?p=8128"},"modified":"2023-03-02T01:59:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T01:59:48","slug":"python-get-count-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jquery-az.com\/python-get-count-of-words\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Python Programs to Get Count of Words in a String"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>How to get the total number of words in a String in Python?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In this tutorial, we will show you solutions to get the total number of words in a given string.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Program 1 \u2013 Using Split function with Len()<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The first program uses split and <a href=\"\/python-3-len-function-get-string-length\/\">len()<\/a> methods.<\/p>\n<p>The split() is used to break a given string by a delimiter. For example,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>strmet.split(&#8216;,&#8217;)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It returns a list of broken strings into a <a href=\"\/python-list-12-examples-to-learn-with-built-in-methods\/\">list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You may learn about <a href=\"\/python-split-string-methods-split-rsplit-and-splitlines-6-examples\/\">Python split method<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By using this method, we will break the string that we want to get the count for.<\/p>\n<p>We will pass the list created by split() method to the len() \u2013 that returns the length of the list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Code:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"python\">#Source string to ge the count of words\r\n\r\nmy_str = \"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.\"\r\nprint (\"Our source string = \" + my_str)\r\n\r\n#Split returns list\r\nprint (my_str.split())\r\n\r\n# using split() with len\r\nword_count = len(my_str.split())\r\n\r\nprint (\"Number of Words = \" + str(word_count))<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Result:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"raw\">Our source string = The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.\r\n\r\n['The', 'way', 'to', 'get', 'started', 'is', 'to', 'quit', 'talking', 'and', 'begin', 'doing.']\r\n\r\nNumber of Words = 12<\/pre>\n<h3><strong>Program 2: Using Split and for loop to count the words<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In the following example, we used the split method to get the list of broken words from the given string.<\/p>\n<p>Then we used a <a href=\"\/learn-using-python-for-loop-7-examples\/\">for loop<\/a> to count the words in that list:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"python\">#Source string to ge the count of words\r\n\r\nmy_str = \"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.\"\r\n\r\nword_count = 0\r\n\r\n\r\nfor item in my_str.split():\r\n\r\n\u00a0 word_count += 1\r\n\r\n# Count of words\r\n\r\nprint (\"Number of Words = \" , word_count)<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Result:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Number of Words =\u00a0 16<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><strong>Program 3: Using regex and len() to get the total count<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>We will use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>findall()<\/li>\n<li><strong>pattern<\/strong> is <strong>r&#8217;\\w+&#8217;<\/strong>. It will match the words in the string.<\/li>\n<li>len() will get the count of words<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Python code:<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"python\">import re\r\n\r\n#Source string to ge the count of words\r\n\r\nmy_str = \"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.\"\r\n\r\n\r\nword_count = len(re.findall(r'\\w+', my_str))\r\n\r\nprint (\"Number of Words = \" , word_count)<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Result:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Number of Words =\u00a0 13<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> It\u2019s drawback is, it also counts quotes or other special characters separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial, we will show you solutions to get the total number of words in a given 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