Word Counter

[Lucas Dadalt]

Hi!

I am looking to use native Word Counter from Google Docs, is that possible?

I tried using this code but it doesn't count properly:

function myFunction() { 

var space = " "; 

var text = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody().getText(); 

var words = text.replace(/\s+/g, space).split(space); 

Logger.log(words.length); 

}

Can somebody help?

Thanks in advance

[Ben Ronkin]

I tried your code on my own document and the count was over by one. 

So I added: Logger.log(words) and saw that one of the array elements was a space.

So I tweaked the code to: var words = text.replace(/\s+/g, space).split(space).filter(Boolean);

And now it was the right count.

If you inspect the words array then you can see where the  problems are and then try to improve your text.replace.

Ben

[Lucas Dadalt]

Thanks! I will try to implement that solution :)

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