Counting Words in TEXT field
| From: | JJ Harrison | Date: | Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:47:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Counting Words in TEXT field | ||
| Groups: | php.db | ||
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I am using mysql.
Is it possible to count the number of words in a text column?
Or is this a job for php(The info will be going into php anyway)?
I can use $word = explode(' ',$row['text']);
then use count($word ).
I just ask because mysql *may* be able to do it.
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JJ Harrison
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