note 109723 deleted from function.str-word-count by aharvey

Note Submitter: uri at speedy dot net ---- Here is a count words function which supports UTF-8 and Hebrew. I tried other functions but they don't work. Notice that in Hebrew, '"' and '\'' can be used in words, so they are not separators. This function is not perfect, I would prefer a function we are using in JavaScript which considers all characters except [a-zA-Zא-ת0-9_\'\"] as separators, but I don't know how to do it in PHP. I removed some of the separators which don't work well with Hebrew ("\x20", "\xA0", "\x0A", "\x0D", "\x09", "\x0B", "\x2E"). I also removed the underline. (this is a fix to my previous post on this page - I added '~' as a separator). <?php function count_words($string) { // Return the number of words in a string. $string= str_replace("&#039;", "'", $string); $t= array(' ', "\t", '=', '+', '-', '*', '/', '\\', ',', '.', ';', ':', '[', ']', '{', '}', '(', ')', '<', '>', '&', '%', '$', '@', '#', '^', '!', '?', '~'); // separators $string= str_replace($t, " ", $string); $string= trim(preg_replace("/\s+/", " ", $string)); $word_array= explode(" ", $string); $num= count($word_array); return $num; } ?>