WordCount and FuzzyWordCount

#1
  1. What’s the difference? Reading on page variables is not clear.
  2. Which is more accurate? The first pulls lesser number than the latter.
#2

.FuzzyWordCount rounds up to the nearest multiple of 100, primarily to display something friendly (300) instead of something that no one cares about (287).

#3

Alright. So, if it was between 201 and 249, will .FuzzyWordCount show 200 or 300?

#4

At 201 it will show 300.

If you want to round to the nearest 100:

{{ mul (math.Round (div (float .WordCount) 100)) 100 }}
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#5

Alright. Where I come from, math was taught that anything below 5 in a tens digit is rounded down, hence my question. So 201-249 would round off to 200. But now I see Hugo works only with rounding up (by default?).

#6

No.

How you decide to round a number depends on how you… round.

See https://gohugo.io/functions/math/

  • math.Ceil
  • math.Floor
  • math.Round

You’ll find these same functions (perhaps named differently) in most programming languages.

When .FuzzyWordCount was implemented as a method on .Page, the decision was to round up. If you don’t like that, use the code from my previous response.

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#7

That worked! I prefer that solution. I will document it for current and future purposes. Thanks.

The last question is, does the .WordCount include or exclude punctuation?

#8

Why don’t you try it yourself? Experimentation is a great way to learn.

word --> 1
word word --> 2
word. word --> 2
word. word. --> 2
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#9

I will test once I am on PC. Cheers!

#10

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