Forums Scripts & Popups Number of characters/words identifier?

Is there an identifier that returns the number of characters in a word, and a different identifier that returns the number of words in the event? If not, can someone help me make one?

Example:

on *:text:*:#: {
/msg $chan The number of letters/characters in your first words was $NumChar($1)
/msg $chan the number of words in your statement was $NumWords($1-)
}

$len() and $0
This will do what you asked, but it will send two lines to the chan for every line others send, so you will likely flood off if it is a busy channel
$len($strip($1)) will remove any control chars from the word before calculating the length.

Use $len() to return characters.

If you want to do words, it depends. you'd have to get a little bit more complex. If you want to specify words based on spaces (the standard), then you could use tokens.

An example would be $numtok($1-,32) would return the number of different 'words' in a string using spaces as the seperator. Of course, you could run into problems and would have to be a little more complicated on the code if you did say, the following:

how are you ?

It would count the ? as an extra word, because of the space there.