Re: counting words.
| From: | Haseeb Iqbal | Date: | Sun, 06 Apr 2003 20:00:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: counting words. | ||
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i think there is a built in php funtion for counting words.i think its
str_count_words or count_words you better take a look
Haseev
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian" <sebastian@dslr.net>
To: "php list" <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 5:46 PM
Subject: [PHP] counting words.
> hello,
>
> I am trying to count the words from text that is fetched from mysql, It
> works, but it's a little inaccurate.. It's about 5 - 10 words off, My
guess
> it's probably counting some HTML or something. Is there a more accurate
way
> of counting words?
>
> $row[12] = strip_tags(strtr($row[12],
> array_flip(get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES))));
> $wordcount = preg_match_all("#(\w+)#", $row[12], $match_dummy);
>
> if($wordcount == "0") {
> $count ="";
> } else {
> $count = preg_match_all("#(\w+)#", $row[12], $match_dummy);
> }
>
>
> cheers,
> - Sebastian
>
>
>