FunctX XQuery Function Library > Strings > Statistics >

functx:word-count

The number of words

Description

The functx:word-count function returns the number of words in a string (or node that is atomized). Word boundaries are determined by the definition of "word characters" in Unicode. If $arg is the empty sequence, it returns zero.

Arguments and Return Type

XQuery Function Declaration

declare namespace functx = "http://www.functx.com";
declare function functx:word-count
  ( $arg as xs:string? )  as xs:integer {

   count(tokenize($arg, '\W+')[. != ''])
 } ;

Examples

functx:word-count('hello there world')

3

functx:word-count(' hello  world    ')

2

functx:word-count('a.b.c')

3

See Also

History