Number of words

[onlyican]

Hey people

 

I need to check the amount of "Words" in a string, and I forgot how to do it

 

I know strlen counts the number of chars in a string, I want the amount of words

 

I think there is a function out there but I cant remember.

 

 

[snakebit]

I don't how good it's but you can tray it :

preg_match_all("\b[a-zA-Z]+\b", $text, $matches);
echo count($matches[0]);

[onlyican]

I could also do something like

<?php
function CountWords($Str){
$words = explode(" ", $str);
$NumWords = count($words);
return $NumWords;
}
?>

 

But I thought there was already a function out there

 

[mihail]

str_word_count($string)

[onlyican]

thank you, as I said, i thought there was a function in php

[itsmeArry]

str_word_count($string) is a php function