Is there a way to count the number of words in an event sheet?

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- Rable
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Hi everyone,

Everything is in the title. I'd like to count the number of words in my project (for translation), but I'm using arrays to enter every line of text.

The obvious way is to copy-paste every line in MS Word, but as there are around 30-50K words in my game, it will be a very long process...

So can this be done automatically in Construct 2 or Construct 3?

Thanks!
- RafaelMatos
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Yes, you can. Right of the bat the first thing I can think of is tokencount. Use space as separator, and then each token is a word.
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- Rable
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Very interesting, thanks for the idea. This will definitely ask for some custom code as I always use the same array in all levels, but it's already better than copy pasting into a word file.

What would have been still beter is a word count for the event sheet in the editor, but I believe I'm hoping for too much here. ^^'
- RafaelMatos
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You just need to have a Count Var and Scan your array. Each element of your array that has dialog, applies the token count. It's pretty straight forward. Here is an example I've made. You should test it more though.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1brpQS6vwmuht63ddxNWfskSO_PBPui73
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Thanks — !

Very useful!