Filemaker Pro 8.5 Educational Maintenance T3 TJ083LL/A User Manual

Product codes

TJ083LL/A

190 FileMaker Functions Reference

Parameter

text - any

Data type returned

number

Description

Returns a count of the total number of words in text.

Examples

WordCount(“The sun is rising.”) returns

WordCount(Letter) returns the total number of words in the Letter field.

Note

The ampersand (&) and hyphen (-) characters identify the beginning of a new word.