note 100468 added to function.str-word-count

to count words after converting a msword document to plain text with antiword, you can use this function: <?php function count_words($text) { $text = str_replace(str_split('|'), '', $text); // remove these chars (you can specify more) $text = trim(preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $text)); // remove extra spaces $text = preg_replace('/-{2,}/', '', $text); // remove 2 or more dashes in a row $len = strlen($text); if (0 === $len) { return 0; } $words = 1; while ($len--) { if (' ' === $text[$len]) { ++$words; } } return $words; } ?> it strips the pipe "|" chars, which antiword uses to format tables in its plain text output, removes more than one dashes in a row (also used in tables), then counts the words. counting words using explode() and then count() is not a good idea for huge texts, because it uses much memory to store the text once more as an array. this is why i'm using while() { .. } to walk the string ---- Server IP: 217.75.128.29 Probable Submitter: 212.233.135.74 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-word-count.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/100468 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100468/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100468/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100468/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100468/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100468/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100468/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/100468 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/100468 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php