how to count and output specific number of strings in a variable

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[sas_student1]

can you remove this post please.

I did not finish my post and accidently posted it.

I have a new post with the full question

Trying to figure out how to remove this one and cant seem to find the delete option

[ballardw]

The function COUNTW may work depending on how well you define "number of strings".

Of course that is for a single observation.

Do you mean to count across observations?

Example input data and example output for the given input will help provide more specifics.

Issues that can affect this sort of count are quoted strings with imbedded delimiters to count as one "string", Strings with delimiters such as period  (is library.dataset to be counted as one string or two?), numeric values with commas and or decimals (is 3,456.7 to be one word, two or 3?)

Presence of special characters such as * / ()%@ and should they be treated as word separators or not.