What is the most efficient way to count number of word in NSString without using regex?

Question

I am a bit new to Objective C and was wondering if there is a better way to count words in a string.

ie:

NSString *str = @\"this is a string\";

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Answer 1

In this situation, I'd use an NSScanner like so:

NSString *str = @"this is a string";
NSScanner *scanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:str];
NSCharacterSet *whiteSpace = [NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet];
NSCharacterSet *nonWhitespace = [whiteSpace invertedSet];
int wordcount = 0;

while(![scanner isAtEnd])
{
    [scanner scanUpToCharactersFromSet:nonWhitespace intoString:nil];
    [scanner scanUpToCharactersFromSet:whitespace intoString:nil];
    wordcount++;
}

This only creates two additional objects, no matter how long the string is.