🚀 Day 66/150 – Count Words in a String in Python

Counting words in a string is a common beginner-level Python problem and is very useful in text processing.

Example:
"Python is easy to learn" → 5 words

Let’s explore different methods to count words in Python 👇

🔹 Method 1 – Using split() and len()

text = "Python is easy to learn" count = len(text.split()) print("Word Count:", count)

📌 split() separates the sentence into words and len() counts them.

🔹 Method 2 – Taking User Input

text = input("Enter a string: ") count = len(text.split()) print("Word Count:", count)

📌 Useful when taking dynamic input from users.

🔹 Method 3 – Using for Loop

text = "Python is easy to learn" count = 1 for ch in text: if ch == " ": count += 1 print("Word Count:", count)

✅ Output

Word Count: 5

📌 Counts spaces manually to estimate the number of words.

⚠️ This method works properly only when words are separated by a single space.

🔹 Method 4 – Using Function

def count_words(text):
    return len(text.split())

print(count_words("Python is easy to learn"))

✅ Output

5

📌 Best approach for reusable and cleaner code.

🔥Key Takeaways

1)split() is the easiest way to count words

2)len() gives the total number of words

3)Loop method helps understand the logic manually

4)Functions improve code reusability and readability