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I was really shocked not to find this already submitted by someone in
the PHP manual notes.

<?
function jnWordCount($te xt) {
$results = array();
$pattern = '/[\w0-9]+\S+/'; // matches wordy characters and numbers
preg_match_all( $pattern,trim($ text),$results) ;
return count($results[0]);
}

$sentence = ' Should be - (ready) ( 53 ) . , =-';
echo jnWordCount($se ntence); // outputs 4
// matches: array('Should', 'be','ready)',' 53')
?>

It counts the number of words ignoring non-wordy charcters and extra
whitespace. Infintately better than:

<?
echo count(explode(' ',$sentence));
?>

Which really only counts the number of spaces not the number of words at
all. The reason I'm posting this here is there is just one slight
problem. I'm pretty new to regular expressions and they never seem to do
exactly what I want.

It doesn't seem to want to match single character words.

<?
echo jnWordCount('a 41 I 5'); // outputs 1. A match for '41' only
?>

Ideas?
Nov 22 '05 #1
3 2171
Did you check str_word_count function ???

bye...

Nov 22 '05 #2
> Did you check str_word_count function ???

bye...

OMG why does this not appear in the results to a search on "word count"?!
Nov 22 '05 #3
Message-ID: <FK************ *************** ***@pipex.net> from Oliver
Saunders contained the following:
Did you check str_word_count function ???

bye...

OMG why does this not appear in the results to a search on "word count"?!


Stop digging...it does. <g>

http://uk2.php.net/manual-lookup.php...+count&lang=en
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