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Re: Word count


  • Subject: Re: Word count
  • From: j o a r <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:10:33 +0200

To avoid having to create a lot of temporary string objects (as with my
previous suggestion), you might also consider using an NSScanner to run
a pass over the string and count spaces (or other whitespace characters
- use the whitespace character set). It might be more efficient - test
it to find out.

j o a r

On 2004-06-09, at 08.05, Matt Baker wrote:

> Anyone know an effiecient way to do a word count on an NSString or
> (better yet) an NSAttributedString? I'm having trouble getting the
> spell checker to count the words (always returns 0) and I see I can
> get an array of the words using NSTextStorage, but that horribly
> memory-sucking in my opinion. That, and I cannot instantiate a
> NSTextStorage object (I could get it from an NSTextView, but I'd
> rather not have to add a text view to just get a word count).

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