Exactly...this is what I wanted... Can we also extract/remove the last word of 
the strings?

Example:
> C=c("My Dog", "Its really good", "Beautiful")
> sapply(strsplit(C, " "), length)
[1] 2 3 1


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Would this:

sapply(strsplit(C, " "), length)

work for?



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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

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