There are functions in perl that tell you the number of characters in a string. You could use the "length" function, for example:

$string="fart";
$x=length($string);

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This would set the value of $x to 4.

As far as recognizing words are concerned, you could use the "split" function to separate the string you're working on into elements of an array in which each element consists of 1 word. For example:

$string="I've just farted";
@stringarray=split(' ',$string);

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In the above code, the elemets of the "@stringarray" array were set as follows: 

$stringarray[0]="I've"
$stringarray[1]="just"
$stringarray[2]="farted"

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So "@stringarray" actually contains the whole sentence separated into words.

2002-04-21 Edit by Corion : Added formatting

In reply to Re: How do I count characters by Anonymous Monk
in thread How do I count characters by Anonymous Monk

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