Character Count

Includes: Every individual character in the text, including letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and spaces.

Example: The text "Hello, world!" has 13 characters (including spaces and punctuation).

Word Count

Definition: Words are defined as sequences of characters separated by spaces or punctuation marks.

How It Counts: The tool splits the text by whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, newlines) and counts the resulting sequences as words.

Example: In the text "Hello, world!", there are 2 words: "Hello" and "world".

Sentence Count

Definition: Sentences are identified by punctuation marks that typically end sentences.

Delimiters Used: The tool counts sentences based on occurrences of periods (.), exclamation points (!), and question marks (?).

How It Counts: It splits the text by these punctuation marks and counts the resulting segments as sentences. Note that sentences are counted as the segments between these punctuation marks.

Example: In the text "Hello! How are you?", there are 2 sentences: "Hello!" and "How are you?".