The Words(s) command splits a string into its constituent words. A list of the words in the input string s, in order, is returned. The non-word characters in the string are elided from the output.

The WordCount(s) command counts the number of words in a given string s.

A word is defined to be a maximal contiguous sequence of alphanumeric characters or the apostrophe character ('). Words are delimited by non-word characters.