Re: Function to return number of words in a string?

On 05/09/05 11:21 AM CDT, Peter Fein <pfein@pobox.com> said:
> Hiya-
>
> I'm looking for a function to return the number of words in a string,
> split on whitespace.  I'm coming from python, so I may just write it
> in that but I wanted to check first.  In python, one would write:
>
> s="some string or other"
> len(s.split())

For the archives:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION word_length(text)
  RETURNS int4 AS
'return len(args[0].split())'
  LANGUAGE 'plpythonu' IMMUTABLE STRICT;

Thanks all.

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