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"Word" (Text Content Type)

A word-like unit, usually delimited by whitespace or punctuation.

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Basic Examples  (4)

Segment a sentence into words:

Wolfram Language code: TextCases["Hello world", "Word"]

Contractions and hyphenated compound words are detected as single words:

Wolfram Language code: TextCases["I'm meeting my mother-in-law", "Word"]

Punctuations between sentences are not detected as words:

Wolfram Language code: TextCases["I lived in N.Y.C. Then moved to Los Angeles. Then Paris.", "Word"]

Get the result as a list of "Word" entities:

Wolfram Language code: TextCases["I lived in N.Y.C. Then moved to Los Angeles. Then Paris.", "Word"]

TextCases[…,"Word"] is equivalent to TextWords:

Wolfram Language code: TextWords["I lived in N.Y.C. Then moved to Los Angeles. Then Paris."]