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Asked: 2026-05-22T17:57:05+00:00

What’s a simple implementation of the following NSString category method that returns the number

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What’s a simple implementation of the following NSString category method that returns the number of words in self, where words are separated by any number of consecutive spaces or newline characters? Also, the string will be less than 140 characters, so in this case, I prefer simplicity & readability at the sacrifice of a bit of performance.

@interface NSString (Additions)
- (NSUInteger)wordCount;
@end

I found the following solutions:

But, isn’t there a simpler way?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks like the second link I gave in my question still reigns as not only the fastest but also, in hindsight, a relatively simple implementation of -[NSString wordCount].

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