Additionally, I need numbers and punctuation to be counted as separat
words.

e.g.:
[12345] typed into the textbox must equal 5 "words".

[See Spot Sit.] = 6 words (period equals "word")

[I said to the man "you must go."] = 18 words (each quotation mark =
word

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