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January 23, 2017 02:58
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| <?php | |
| // The function to count words in Unicode strings | |
| function count_unicode_words( $unicode_string ){ | |
| // First remove all the punctuation marks & digits | |
| $unicode_string = preg_replace('/[[:punct:][:digit:]]/', '', $unicode_string); | |
| // Now replace all the whitespaces (tabs, new lines, multiple spaces) by single space | |
| $unicode_string = preg_replace('/[[:space:]]/', ' ', $unicode_string); | |
| // The words are now separated by single spaces and can be splitted to an array | |
| // I have included \n\r\t here as well, but only space will also suffice | |
| $words_array = preg_split( "/[\n\r\t ]+/", $unicode_string, 0, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY ); |
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| <?php | |
| $string = 'This is a sample string.'; | |
| $word_count = str_word_count ( string $string ); | |
| echo $word_count; | |
| ?> |