The definition of a word

[Peter T. Evensen]

I need now reading the documentation that items enclosed in quotes are one 
word.  That seems almost undesirable.  What are your all thoughts?  Is 
there a case where you use this?

At 05:25 PM 7/28/2006, you wrote:
>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

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