Count Words in a String | Dataford Interview Questions

Write a program to count the number of words in a string.

Implement count_words(text), which accepts one string and returns an integer. A word is a maximal sequence of non-whitespace characters. Treat spaces, tabs, and newline characters as separators, ignore leading or trailing separators, and treat consecutive separators as one. Test inputs may represent tab and newline separators using the escaped sequences \\t and \ .

Constraints

0 <= len(text) <= 10^5
text contains Unicode characters and whitespace separators
A word contains one or more non-whitespace characters

Function Signature

def count_words(text):

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Problem

Write a program to count the number of words in a string.

Constraints

0 <= len(text) <= 10^5
text contains Unicode characters and whitespace separators
A word contains one or more non-whitespace characters

Function Signature

def count_words(text):

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Run and submit as often as you like. When you're ready, talk me through your approach or go straight to the code.