note 44475 added to function.str-word-count

str_word_count works great on alaphabetic strings (if you clean the text first) but doesn't include numbers (numeric strings). I couldn't use it on a recent project because I needed to count numeric strings (phone numbers, etc) as words. Default str_word_count // remove excess spaces between words $string = ereg_replace(" +"," ","$string"); // remove leading and trailing spaces $string = trim($string); // count number of words $numberWords = str_word_count($string); The above was inaccurate for my purpose so to count the number of elements in an alphanumeric string clean the data then create and count an array. $string = ereg_replace(" +", " ", $string); $string = trim($string); // count number of words $wordArray = explode(" ", $string); $numberWords = count ($wordArray); Thanks for all the help, hope I'm giving something back. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-word-count.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+44475 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+44475&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+44475&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php