Get the count of characters and words in the string without looping

In this blog you will see method to count the number of char in a word and number of words in a string.

Count of Chars in a word

private int GetCharCount(string word)

{

   //the below piece of code will convert the word to a char array 

   int charCount = word.ToCharArray().Length;

   return charCount;
} 

Count of Words in a string

private int GetWordCount(string text) 

{

   int wrdCount = text.Split(' ' ).Length;

   return wrdCount; 

}