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Tip formerly from VB2TheMax
Expertise: Intermediate
Language: VB5,VB6,VBS
July 7, 2001
Count number of words with the RegExp object
A Visual Basic function that counts the number of words in a sentence or text file can become quickly very complex, and usually doesn't execute fast enough for most purposes. Thanks to the RegEx object that comes with the Microsoft VBScript Regular Expression type library, this task becomes trivial. Here's all the code that you need:
' Count the number of words in the string argument
'
' NOTE: requires a reference to the
' Microsoft VBScript Regular Expression type library
Function CountWords(ByVal Text As String) As Long
Dim re As New RegExp
' the following pattern means that we're looking for a word character (\w)
' repeated one or more times (the + suffix), and that occurs on a word
' boundary (leading and trailing \b sequences)
re.Pattern = "\b\w+\b"
' search for *all* occurrences
re.Global = True
' the Execute method does the search and returns a MatchCollection object
' which in turn exposes the Count property,
' i.e. the result we're interested into
CountWords = re.Execute(Text).Count
End Function
Francesco Balena
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