AnyOne Know of a Good Word Count Algorithm in C#

Question

I am looking for a good word count class or function. When I copy and paste something from the internet and compare it with my custom word count algorithm and MS Word it is always off by a little more then 10%. I think that is too much . So do you guys know of an accurate word count algorithm in c#.

Answer 1

String.Split by predefined chars. Use punctuations, spaces (remove multiple space), and any other chars that you determine to be "word splits"

What have you tried?

I did see that the previous user got nailed for links, but here is some examples of using regex, or char matching. Hope it helps, and nobody gets hurt X-)

String.Split Method (Char[])

Word counter in C#

C# Word Count

Answer 2

As @astander suggests, you can do a String.Split as follows:

string[] a = s.Split(
    new char[] { ' ', ',', ';', '.', '!', '"', '(', ')', '?' },
    StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

By passing in an array of chars, you can split on multiple word breaks. Removing empty entries will keep you from counting non-word words.