Question

I am not sure how to go about this. Right now I am counting the spaces to get the word count of my string but if there is a double space the word count will be inaccurate. Is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

Alternate Version of @Martin v. Löwis, which uses a foreach and char.IsWhiteSpace() which should be more correct when dealing with other cultures.

int CountWithForeach(string para)
{
    bool inWord = false;
    int words = 0;
    foreach (char c in para)
    {
        if (char.IsWhiteSpace(c))
        {
            if( inWord )
                words++;
            inWord = false;
            continue;
        }
        inWord = true;
    }
    if( inWord )
        words++;

    return words;
}