Determining the number of tokens in a message depends on the programming language being used and the definition of a “token.”
In general, tokens are individual pieces of a larger piece of data. For example, in a sentence, each individual word can be considered a token.
For example, if you are using Python, you better use the split() function, which separates a string into a list of substrings based on a delimiter (by default, it’s white space). The length of that list (found with len()) would be the number of tokens.
```
message = ‘This is a sample message‘
tokens = message.split()
num_tokens = len(tokens)
print(num_tokens)
```
In this example, num\_tokens would be 5 because there are 5 words in the sentence.
Again, this is a simplified example, and the definition of a “token” can be much more complex in certain contexts (e.g., in language processing or computer programming).
