Re: newbie q: how to count words in a file

Use file system functions to get the contents of the file in a string, then us substr_count() on that string. Filesystem: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.filesystem.php substr_count: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.substr-count.php Regrads Khalid Al-kary

Hi ! I'm new to php and I have not found a solution for my problem (dumb me) ok.. here we go... I have a file.. it's content is: hello, ello, llo and so on and so on.... ok.. and now I want to know how many "hello" words are in that file.. how can I arrange it ?:) Thanks Tauntz -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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