Name Recipes/Common/WordCount/CountInLine3

Synopsis Count words in a line.

Examples Here is a clever, albeit rather dense, solution that illustrates several Rascal concepts.

module demo::common::WordCount::CountInLine3

public int countInLine3(str S){
  return (0 | it + 1 | /\w+/ := S);
}

We use a Rascal:Reducer that is a recipe to reduce the values produced by one or more generators to a single value:

• 0 is the initial value of the reducer
• The pattern match /\w+/ := S matches all words in S.
• Reduction is done by it + 1. In the latter it is a keyword that refers to the value that has been reduced sofar. Effectively, the matches are reduced to a match count.

Let's try it:

rascal>import demo::common::WordCount::CountInLine3;
ok
rascal>countInLine3("Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll");
int: 4

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