How do I find the number of words in an answer, like the:

block? like if the answer was “hello world”, how would I count the words?

Go through a string, adding every letter to the same line. When you encounter a space, add a new line and start adding to that instead. Remove all blank values in the list, and just use the length of the list.
Here's an example:

here's what I did

it doesn't separate the words and put them in a list, just gives you a word count. It should work even if the answer has multiple spaces at the beginning, middle or end which I think might break the example above (although I haven't tested it)

Please

Dabman2392 wrote:

please don't necropost

If you are using it to make noises for the amount of characters that there are in an answer, then, use this:

Otherwise, use the other methods

and sorry, i never checked the time this was posted.