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WordCount()Category: Text Syntax: WordCount ( text ) Parameters: text ”any expression that resolves to a text string. Description: Returns a count of the number of words in text . Examples: WordCount ("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.") Returns 9 . WordCount (FullName) Returns 4 when FullName contains "John Q. Public, Jr." Comments: Spaces, return characters , and most punctuation symbols are considered to be word breaks by FileMaker Pro. Multiple word breaks next to each other (for example, two spaces, a comma, and a space) are considered as a single word break. Certain punctuation symbols are word breaks when separating alpha characters, but not when separating numeric characters. These include the colon (:), slash (/), period (.), comma (,), and dash (-). For instance, WordCount ("54.6") returns 1 , but WordCount ("x.y") returns 2 . The reason for this behavior is that those symbols are valid date, time, and number separators. |
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