$numOfWords = count(preg_split('/\s+/', trim($string)));
(also untested); this ignores leading/trailing whitespace, and deals with multiple spaces/tabs between words. There is an example in the docs (below) called 'Get the parts of a search string' that shows how to add other characters that you might consider valid word delimiters - eg, a comma.
See
http://php.he.net/manual/en/function.preg-split.php
-steve
At 10:41 AM -0600 1/23/03, "Chris Boget" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a way to count the number of words in a string? Untested, but this should work.$string = "Is there a way to count the number of words in a string?" $numOfWords = count( explode( " ", $string )); Chris
-- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Steve Edberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of California, Davis (530)754-9127 | | Programming/Database/SysAdmin http://pgfsun.ucdavis.edu/ | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | SETI@Home: 1001 Work units on 23 oct 2002 | | 3.152 years CPU time, 3.142 years SETI user... and STILL no aliens... | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
