As "ButtersRugby" said, usually you'll count characters because of a string length limit for some field or display, so you'll want to take all punctuation and spaces into account. Counting letters only is rarely a real requirement.
s.match(/\w/g).length makes more sense at first sight, despite being probably slower. -- ricardo On Jul 27, 8:23 pm, RobG <robg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 28, 5:09 am, Liam Byrne <l...@onsight.ie> wrote: > > > A letter count is FAR easier - just get the string's length. > > The length of the string will give you a *character* count. I would > not inlcude punctuation, white space, etc. in a *letter* count. For > number of letters, try: > > s.replace(/[^a-zA-Z]/g,'').length; > > -- > Rob
