To put in more general, C=c("My Dog", "Its really good", "Beautiful")
And the resultant output should be [1] 2 3 1 ...the number of words.... Thank you... Shubha Karanth | Amba Research Ph +91 80 3980 8031 | Mob +91 94 4886 4510 Bangalore * Colombo * London * New York * San José * Singapore * www.ambaresearch.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shubha Vishwanath Karanth Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 8:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [R] Number of words in a string Hi R, A quick question: How do we find the number of words in a string? Example: C="Have a nice day" And the number of words should be 4. any built in function or?... Thanks, Shubha Shubha Karanth | Amba Research Ph +91 80 3980 8031 | Mob +91 94 4886 4510 Bangalore * Colombo * London * New York * San José * Singapore * www.ambaresearch.com This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:13}} This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged i...{{dropped:10}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.