ASFAIK there is no error, it's an EZ-Script bug this code works:

$HumanSaid = "The quick brown fox, jumps over the @## lazy dog !!!"
$Sentence = $HumanSaid
$xCount = 0

$contains=contains($Sentence, " ")
repeatwhile($contains)
  $xStrLength = Length($Sentence)
  $xIndex1 = IndexOf($Sentence, " ")
  $Sentence = SubString($Sentence,$xIndex1 + 1,($xStrLength - ($xIndex1 + 1)))
  $xCount = $xCount + 1
  $contains=contains($Sentence, " ")
endrepeatwhile
$xCount = $xCount + 1
$WordCount = $xCount
print("Total words: " + $wordCount)

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Total Words: 11 Done (00:00:00.0219259)

You should move away from EZ-Script to Javascript or Python.

Javascript version:

function countWords(str) {
  var matches = str.match(/[\w\d\’\'-]+/gi);
  return matches ? matches.length : 0;
}

text = "The quick brown fox, jumps over the @## lazy dog !!!"
print("Total words: " + countWords(text) );

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Total words: 9 Done (00:00:00.0128812)

Python version:

import string 
  
text = "The quick brown fox, jumps over the @## lazy dog !!!"
words = sum([i.strip(string.punctuation).isalpha() for i in text.split()]) 
print ("Total words: " +  str(words))

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Total words : 9 Done (00:00:00.0184166)

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Thank you PTP, I am starting to use JavaScript. But when I can't find what I want to do it is so easy to fall back to EZ-Script. Have to start from scratch as most of my scripts just vanished when I installed ARC and I can't find any backups and I know I have made lots.

by the way what does ASFAIK mean?

AFAIK  =As Far As I Know

ASFAIK = PTP's version of AFAIK (All rights reserved) :)

Thanks again PTP

Are you just trying to count the number of words? Use the split() function and get the array length

@ DJ, Yup that is what I am doing. Thank you DJ