# A couple of questions about arrays and "findall" function
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-arrays-and-findall-function/68785
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** strings, array
**Created:** [September 26, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-arrays-and-findall-function/68785 "2021-09-26T19:09:17Z")
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### Author:  [@Jesus-117](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jesus-117)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-arrays-and-findall-function/68785/1 "2021-09-26T19:09:17Z")
Hello there !! I am new to programming in general and I have a couple of questions about how to use strings, if I have an example text and I would like to count the spaces in the text like this:
```julia
ExampleText= "a b c d e f g k k k"
count(i->(i==' '), ExampleText)
```
And it works!!!,
But researching the documentation I found the function “findall” my first question is whether
Can I count spaces using this function?
And the second question is if I want to make an array that contains as elements each of the words of the text. That is:
text [1] = a, text [2] = b, … text [end] = k.
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### Author:  [@DNF](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/DNF)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-arrays-and-findall-function/68785/2 "2021-09-26T19:16:39Z")
> [@Ixe117](#):
>
> Can I count spaces using this function?
Yes, but using `count` will be faster. BTW, shouldn’t your code say `count(i->(i==' '), ExampleText)`? Perhaps a slightly more elegant call would be
```julia
count(isspace, ExampleText)
```
where detects various whitespace.
For your second question, use `split`:
```julia
jl> split(ExampleText)
10-element Vector{SubString{String}}:
"a"
"b"
"c"
"d"
"e"
"f"
"g"
"k"
"k"
"k"
```
Another alternative to `isspace` and `i->(i==' ')` is `==(' ')`.
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### Author:  [@lmiq](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lmiq)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-arrays-and-findall-function/68785/3 "2021-09-26T19:18:42Z")
In Julia 1.7 you can use:
```julia
count(' ', string)
```
The same for findall.
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### Author:  [@Jesus-117](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jesus-117)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-couple-of-questions-about-arrays-and-findall-function/68785/4 "2021-09-26T19:23:40Z")
Thank you for everything! 😃