export function countWords(text: string): number {
  // Trim leading/trailing whitespace, then split on one-or-more whitespace characters
  const words = text.trim().split(/\s+/);
  // If the string was empty or only whitespace, split() returns [''], so handle that
  if (words.length === 1 && words[0] === "") {
    return 0;
  }
  return words.length;
}