Command
	wen

Purpose
	Editor - Word enumerator or counter

Aliases
	wordenumerator, wordenum, wen, wc

Syntax
	wen [ <options> ] <input_string>

Options
	-e	Count empty words. Without this option, empty lines are not considered.

	-c	Case insensitive. Case will be ignored when considering separator characters.

Arguments
	<input_string>
		The input string on which this command will operate. It can be specified as a str constant
		or str variable or an expression resulting in a str value.

		If a str constant is used, we highly recommend using double quotes around it, such as "John Doe".
		Without the double quotes, the spaces in the input string will produce errors.
		

Stream Input	
	Stream input is ignored.

Stream Output
	The number of words found are written here.

Stream Error
	Any errors are listed here.

Description
	The command enumerates (or counts) words in the <input_string> and writes the count to the stream output
	or redirected output target.

	The following system variable plays an important role.

	$wsep	Word separator

	This variable is used to identify, number, and extract distinct words.
	See the 'systemvar' help topic for its description.
	You can change its value to highly refine your search procedure.
	We highly recommend that, if you change any system variable's value, you restore it
	after the search is complete, as many system variables are often used by more than one command.

	The command CAN ALSO BE USED WITH FILES. Simply read in the contents of the file using the
	repro command into a str variable, then use that str variable as <input_string>. Finally,
	write the thus modified str variable back to the file.
		
Restrictions
	None.

Valid Examples
	Assume that you want to count words in a file myfile.js.

	var str content
	repro "myfile.js" >$content
	wen -e $content

	The above code will produce the number of all words (including empty words)
	in file myfile.js.

	To count just the non-empty lines, do NOT use the -e option, as follows.

	wen $content
	
Invalid Examples

	wen "myfile.js" 

	Will produce 1. That's because myfile.js will be taken verbatim as
	<input_string>, and there is only one word in that string.

	wen { repro "myfile.js" }

	Will also produce erroneous results. The inline command { repro "myfile.js" }
	will execute and bring out its output as part of the command line for wen.
	The wen comand will then consider the first word of the output as <input_string>.
	So, if the first word of myfile.js is empty, since we did not specify -e option,
	the output of the wen command will be 0. If the first word of myfile.js is not
	an empty word, the output of the wen command will be 1.

	To correctly count the number of words in myfile.js, use the code listed
	above under Valid Examples.

See Also
systemvar
var
echo
escape
wex
win
wap
wal
sen
len
chen