Dsa
Strings
Warm-up
Count the Number of Words
Develop a function that counts the number of words in a given string. Words are defined as sequences of characters separated by whitespace. The input will be a single line. The output should be a single integer representing the word count.
Example input:
This is an example.
Example output:
4
Key concepts
stringscountingwords
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