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How about parsing the string into an array and seeing how big the array
is?



Jeroen Straathof wrote:
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> Hello,
> 
> How do I count words in PHP ?
> I have version 3.0.17 installed.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jeroen
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This should work:

function count_word($text)
{
$count = 0;
for($i = 0, $j = -1; $i < strlen($text); $i++)
 {
 switch($text[$i])
  {
  case "\r":
  case "\n":
  case "\t":
  case " ":
  if($i != $j + 1)
   {
   $count++;
   }
  $j = $i;
  }
 }
if($i != $j + 1)
 {
 $count++;
 }
return $count;
}

Something like sizeof(explode(strtr(...))) doesn't work very well, since it
overcounts when you have consecutive delimiters (e.g. a space before a
linebreak). If you have to loop through the array anyway looking for empty
strings, might as well loop through the string instead.

Jeroen Straathof <jstraa@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> How do I count words in PHP ?
> I have version 3.0.17 installed.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeroen
>
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