The definition of a word

Peter T. Evensen pevensen at siboneylg.com
Fri Jul 28 18:25:05 EDT 2006


I just ran into something unexpected.  If I do the following, I get 
1!  Does having a quote in a text string change the definition of a word?

put the number of words in (quote & "This is a test" & quote)

In anything defined in quotes considered one word?  I would have expected 
"This is a test"  (including the quotes) to have 4 words:
"This
is
a
test"

I tried using token, and I get the same result.

put the number of words in (quote & "This is a test")

produces 1 as well, but

put the number of tokens in (quote & "This is a test" & quote)

produces 0

Peter T. Evensen
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