Re: Class for determining word count, ignoring HTML?
| From: | Greg Donald | Date: | Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:18:55 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Class for determining word count, ignoring HTML? | ||
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On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:10:37 +1000, Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
<lists@planetthoughtful.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Just wondering if anyone knows of a class that can perform a word count of
> text in a string that ignores HTML?
>
> IE, something that would correctly determine that the following string is 6
> words long:
>
> "<blockquote>
>
> This string is six words long.
>
> </blockuote>"
Use strip_tags() to remove the html, then explode() the string by a
space, then count() the exploded array.
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