Count words and spaces in string C#

Question

I want to count words and spaces in my string. String looks like this:

Command do something ptuf(123) and bo(1).ctq[5] v:0,

I have something like this so far

int count = 0;
string mystring = "Command do something ptuf(123) and bo(1).ctq[5] v:0,";
foreach(char c in mystring) 
{
if(char.IsLetter(c)) 
  {
     count++;
  }
}

What should I do to count spaces also?

Answer 1

int countSpaces = mystring.Count(Char.IsWhiteSpace); // 6
int countWords = mystring.Split().Length; // 7

Note that both use Char.IsWhiteSpace which assumes other characters than " " as white-space(like newline). Have a look at the remarks section to see which exactly .

Answer 2

you can use string.Split with a space http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.split.aspx

When you get a string array the number of elements is the number of words, and the number of spaces is the number of words -1