Count Words and Characters In a String

Simple way you can use Regular Expression

    string strOriginal = "These functions will come handy";

    string strModified = String.Empty;

// Count words

    System.Text.RegularExpressions.MatchCollection wordColl = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Matches(strOriginal, @"[\S]+");

    MessageBox.Show(wordColl.Count.ToString());

    // Count characters. White space is treated as a character

    System.Text.RegularExpressions.MatchCollection charColl = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Matches(strOriginal, @".");

    MessageBox.Show(charColl.Count.ToString());