What is the best PHP count words class?: Count the number of words in a string

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by Omotayo Odupitan - 7 years ago (2016-10-25)

Count the number of words in a string

+2	I need to count the number of words in a string.

1 Clarification request
1. by Oleg Zorin - 7 years ago (2016-10-27) Reply
Good day, Omotayo Odupitan.

<code>

<?php

function wordsCounter($string) {
```
$string = preg_replace('/[^[:alpha:]]+/', ' ', $string);
```
```
return count(explode(' ', $string));
```
}

2. by Omotayo Odupitan - 7 years ago (2016-10-27) in reply to comment 1 by Oleg Zorin Comment
Thank you Oleg Zorin.

Much appreciated.
3. by Chiranjeevi Kanaka - 7 years ago (2016-11-02) in reply to comment 1 by Oleg Zorin Comment
what if word contains integers or hyphen. Your function would count them as different words. Instead try this.

<code> <?php

function contains_alpha($item) {
```
preg_match('[a-zA-Z]+', $item, $matches);
return empty($matches) ? False : True;
```
}

function wordsCounter($str) {
```
$str = split('\s+', $str);
$str = array_filter($str, 'contains_alpha')
return count($str);
```
}
4. by Oleg Zorin - 7 years ago (2016-11-02) in reply to comment 3 by Chiranjeevi Kanaka Comment
[a-zA-Z] it works only with latin alfabet. But 'Ёжик' (small hedgehog) is also a word :).

But in general, I like your variant.
5. by Oleg Zorin - 7 years ago (2016-11-02) in reply to comment 4 by Oleg Zorin Comment
Oops, phpclasses uses ISO-8859-1 charset (it doesn'y support cyrillic chars)

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