str_word_count

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str_word_count — Возвращает информацию о словах, входящих в строку

Описание

mixed str_word_count ( string $string [, int $format ] )

Подсчитывает количество слов, входящих в строку string . Если необязательный аргумент format не передан, возвращается целое число, равное количеству слов. В случае, если аргумент format передан, возвращается массив, содержимое которого зависит от значения этого аргумента. Ниже описаны допустимые значения аргумента format и соответствующие им возвращаемые значения.

  • 1 - возвращается массив, содержащий все слова, входящие в строку string .
  • 2 - возвращается массив, индексами которого являются позиции в строке, а значениями - соответствующие слова.

Эта функция считает словами последовательности алфавитных символов, возможно, включающие, но не начинающихся с "'" и "-". Набор символов, считающихся алфавитными, зависит от текущей локали.

Пример #1 Пример использования str_word_count()

<?php

$str 
"Hello friend, you're
        looking          good today!"
;

$a   str_word_count($str1);
$b   str_word_count($str2);
$c   str_word_count($str);

print_r($a);
print_r($b);
echo 
$c;
?>

Вывод:


Array
(
    [0] => Hello
    [1] => friend
    [2] => you're
    [3] => looking
    [4] => good
    [5] => today
)

Array
(
    [0] => Hello
    [6] => friend
    [14] => you're
    [29] => looking
    [46] => good
    [51] => today
)

6

См. также описание функций explode(), preg_split(), split(), count_chars() и substr_count().

Коментарии

This example may not be pretty, but It proves accurate:

<?php
//count words
$words_to_count strip_tags($body);
$pattern "/[^(\w|\d|\'|\"|\.|\!|\?|;|,|\\|\/|\-\-|:|\&|@)]+/";
$words_to_count preg_replace ($pattern" "$words_to_count);
$words_to_count trim($words_to_count);
$total_words count(explode(" ",$words_to_count));
?>

Hope I didn't miss any punctuation. ;-)
2002-11-09 14:06:14
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Here is another way to count words :
$word_count = count(preg_split('/\W+/', $text, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY));
2003-01-16 09:58:14
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Some ask not just split on ' ', well, it's because simply exploding on a ' ' isn't fully accurate.  Words can be separated by tabs, newlines, double spaces, etc.  This is why people tend to seperate on all whitespace with regular expressions.
2003-04-06 22:30:38
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if string doesn't contain the space " ", the explode method doesn't do anything, so i've wrote this and it seems works better ... i don't know about time and resource

<?php
function str_incounter($match,$string) {
$count_match 0;
for(
$i=0;$i<strlen($string);$i++) {
if(
strtolower(substr($string,$i,strlen($match)))==strtolower($match)) {
$count_match++;
}
}
return 
$count_match;
}
?>

example 

<?php
$string 
"something:something!!something";
$count_some str_incounter("something",$string);
// will return 3
?>
2003-05-19 07:55:44
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.str-word-count.html
Автор:
Never use this function to count/separate alphanumeric words, it will just split them up words to words, numbers to numbers.  You could refer to another function "preg_split" when splitting alphanumeric words.  It works with Chinese characters as well.
2003-10-15 05:32:06
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Автор:
Nothing of this worked for me. I think countwords() is very encoding dependent. This is the code for win1257. For other layots you just need to redefine the ranges of letters...

<?php
function countwords($text){
       
$ls=0;//was it a whitespace?
       
$cc33=0;//counter
       
for($i=0;$i<strlen($text);$i++){
               
$spstat=false//is it a number or a letter?
               
$ot=ord($text[$i]);
                if( ((
$ot>=48) && ($ot<=57)) ||  (($ot>=97) && ($ot<=122)) || (($ot>=65) && ($ot<=90)) || ($ot==170) ||
                ((
$ot>=192) && ($ot<=214)) || (($ot>=216) && ($ot<=246)) || (($ot>=248) && ($ot<=254))  )$spstat=true;
                if((
$ls==0)&&($spstat)){
                       
$ls=1;
                       
$cc33++;
                }
                if(!
$spstat)$ls=0;
        }
        return 
$cc33;
}

?>
2004-02-22 11:06:07
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This functionality is now implemented in the PEAR package PHP_Compat.

More information about using this function without upgrading your version of PHP can be found on the below link:

http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Compat
2004-06-26 06:02:18
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.str-word-count.html
Автор:
One function.
<?php
if (!function_exists('word_count')) {
function 
word_count($str,$n "0"){
   
$m=strlen($str)/2;
   
$a=1;
    while (
$a<$m) {
       
$str=str_replace("  "," ",$str);
       
$a++;
        }
   
$b explode(" "$str);
   
$i 0
    foreach (
$b as $v) {
       
$i++;
        }
    if (
$n==1) return $b;
    else  return 
$i;

    }
}
$str="Tere Tartu linn";
$c  word_count($str,1); // it return an array
$d  word_count($str); // it return int - how many words was in text
print_r($c);
echo 
$d;
?>
2004-11-14 04:53:37
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.str-word-count.html
Автор:
This function seems to view numbers as whitespace. I.e. a word consisting of numbers only won't be counted.
2005-01-16 08:38:59
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Автор:
Here's a function that will trim a $string down to a certian number of words, and add a...   on the end of it.
(explansion of muz1's 1st 100 words code)

----------------------------------------------
<?php
function trim_text($text$count){
$text str_replace("  "" "$text);
$string explode(" "$text);
for ( 
$wordCounter 0$wordCounter <= $count;wordCounter++ ){ 
$trimed .= $string[$wordCounter];
if ( 
$wordCounter $count ){ $trimed .= " "; }
else { 
$trimed .= "..."; }
}
$trimed trim($trimed);
return 
$trimed;
}
?>

Usage
------------------------------------------------
<?php
$string 
"one two three four";
echo 
trim_text($string3);
?>

returns:
one two three...
2005-08-16 00:12:56
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.str-word-count.html
If you are looking to count the frequency of words, try:

<?php

$wordfrequency 
array_count_valuesstr_word_count$string1) );

?>
2006-08-17 14:51:25
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Автор:
Here is a php work counting function together with a javascript version which will print the same result.

<?php
     
//Php word counting function
     
function word_count($theString)
      {
       
$char_count strlen($theString);
       
$fullStr $theString." ";
       
$initial_whitespace_rExp "^[[:alnum:]]$";
       
       
$left_trimmedStr ereg_replace($initial_whitespace_rExp,"",$fullStr);
       
$non_alphanumerics_rExp "^[[:alnum:]]$";
       
$cleanedStr ereg_replace($non_alphanumerics_rExp," ",$left_trimmedStr);
       
$splitString explode(" ",$cleanedStr);
       
       
$word_count count($splitString)-1;
       
        if(
strlen($fullStr)<2)
        {
         
$word_count=0;
        }     
        return 
$word_count;
      }
?>

<?php
     
//Function to count words in a phrase
     
function wordCount(theString)
      {
        var 
char_count theString.length;
        var 
fullStr theString " ";
        var 
initial_whitespace_rExp = /^[^A-Za-z0-9]+/gi;
        var 
left_trimmedStr fullStr.replace(initial_whitespace_rExp"");
        var 
non_alphanumerics_rExp rExp = /[^A-Za-z0-9]+/gi;
        var 
cleanedStr left_trimmedStr.replace(non_alphanumerics_rExp" ");
        var 
splitString cleanedStr.split(" ");
       
        var 
word_count splitString.length -1;
       
        if (
fullStr.length <2
        {
         
word_count 0;
        }     
        return 
word_count;
      }
?>
2007-01-30 10:15:01
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.str-word-count.html
I was interested in a function which returned the first few words out of a larger string.

In reality, I wanted a preview of the first hundred words of a blog entry which was well over that.

I found all of the other functions which explode and implode strings to arrays lost key markups such as line breaks etc.

So, this is what I came up with:

<?php
function WordTruncate($input$numWords) {
if(
str_word_count($input,0)>$numWords)
{
   
$WordKey str_word_count($input,1);
   
$WordIndex array_flip(str_word_count($input,2));
    return 
substr($input,0,$WordIndex[$WordKey[$numWords]]);
}
else {return 
$input;}
}
?>

While I haven't counted per se, it's accurate enough for my needs. It will also return the entire string if it's less than the specified number of words.

The idea behind it? Use str_word_count to identify the nth word, then use str_word_count to identify the position of that word within the string, then use substr to extract up to that position.

Josh.
2007-03-01 17:57:25
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I needed a function which would extract the first hundred words out of a given input while retaining all markup such as line breaks, double spaces and the like. Most of the regexp based functions posted above were accurate in that they counted out a hundred words, but recombined the paragraph by imploding an array down to a string. This did away with any such hopes of line breaks, and thus I devised a crude but very accurate function which does all that I ask it to:

<?php
function Truncate($input$numWords
{
  if(
str_word_count($input,0)>$numWords)
  {
   
$WordKey str_word_count($input,1);
   
$PosKey str_word_count($input,2);
   
reset($PosKey);
    foreach(
$WordKey as $key => &$value)
    {
       
$value=key($PosKey);
       
next($PosKey);
    }
    return 
substr($input,0,$WordKey[$numWords]);
  }
  else {return 
$input;}
}
?>

The idea behind it? Go through the keys of the arrays returned by str_word_count and associate the number of each word with its character position in the phrase. Then use substr to return everything up until the nth character. I have tested this function on rather large entries and it seems to be efficient enough that it does not bog down at all.

Cheers!

Josh
2007-03-02 19:02:19
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Автор:
<?php

/**
 * Returns the number of words in a string.
 * As far as I have tested, it is very accurate.
 * The string can have HTML in it,
 * but you should do something like this first:
 *
 *    $search = array(
 *      '@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si',
 *      '@<style[^>]*?>.*?</style>@siU',
 *      '@<![\s\S]*?--[ \t\n\r]*>@'
 *    );
 *    $html = preg_replace($search, '', $html);
 *
 */

function word_count($html) {

 
# strip all html tags
 
$wc strip_tags($html);

 
# remove 'words' that don't consist of alphanumerical characters or punctuation
 
$pattern "#[^(\w|\d|\'|\"|\.|\!|\?|;|,|\\|\/|\-|:|\&|@)]+#";
 
$wc trim(preg_replace($pattern" "$wc));

 
# remove one-letter 'words' that consist only of punctuation
 
$wc trim(preg_replace("#\s*[(\'|\"|\.|\!|\?|;|,|\\|\/|\-|:|\&|@)]\s*#"" "$wc));

 
# remove superfluous whitespace
 
$wc preg_replace("/\s\s+/"" "$wc);

 
# split string into an array of words
 
$wc explode(" "$wc);

 
# remove empty elements
 
$wc array_filter($wc);

 
# return the number of words
 
return count($wc);

}

?>
2007-12-08 22:01:08
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For spanish speakers a valid character map may be:

<?php
$characterMap 
'áéíóúüñ';

$count str_word_count($text0$characterMap);
?>
2008-12-22 05:06:26
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My quick and rough wordLimiter function.

<?php
function WordLimiter($text,$limit=20){
   
$explode explode(' ',$text);
   
$string  '';
       
   
$dots '...';
    if(
count($explode) <= $limit){
       
$dots '';
    }
    for(
$i=0;$i<$limit;$i++){
       
$string .= $explode[$i]." ";
    }
       
    return 
$string.$dots;
}
?>
2009-01-11 02:37:32
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We can also specify a range of values for charlist.

<?php
$str 
"Hello fri3nd, you're
       looking          good today! 
       look1234ing"
;
print_r(str_word_count($str1'0..3'));
?>

will give the result as 

Array ( [0] => Hello [1] => fri3nd [2] => you're [3] => looking [4] => good [5] => today [6] => look123 [7] => ing )
2009-02-05 04:32:57
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Автор:
Personally, I dont like using this function becuase the characters it omits are sometime nessesery for instance MS Word counts ">" or "<" alone as single word where this function doesnt. I like using this however, it counts EVERYTHING:

<?php
function num_words($string){
   
preg_match_all("/\S+/"$string$matches);
    return 
count($matches[0]);
}
?>
2009-04-13 13:39:05
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Hi this is the first time I have posted on the php manual, I hope some of you will like this little function I wrote.

It returns a string with a certain character limit, but still retaining whole words.
It breaks out of the foreach loop once it has found a string short enough to display, and the character list can be edited.

<?php
function word_limiter$text$limit 30$chars '0123456789' ) {
    if( 
strlen$text ) > $limit ) {
       
$words str_word_count$text2$chars );
       
$words array_reverse$wordsTRUE );
        foreach( 
$words as $length => $word ) {
            if( 
$length strlen$word ) >= $limit ) {
               
array_shift$words );
            } else {
                break;
            }
        }
       
$words array_reverse$words );
       
$text implode" "$words ) . '&hellip;';
    }
    return 
$text;
}

$str "Hello this is a list of words that is too long";
echo 
'1: ' word_limiter$str );
$str "Hello this is a list of words";
echo 
'2: ' word_limiter$str );
?>

1: Hello this is a list of words&hellip;
2: Hello this is a list of words
2009-07-29 07:56:01
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Words also cannot end in a hyphen unless allowed by the charlist...
2010-02-13 01:33:00
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to count words after converting a msword document to plain text with antiword, you can use this function:

<?php
function count_words($text) {
   
$text str_replace(str_split('|'), ''$text); // remove these chars (you can specify more)
   
$text trim(preg_replace('/\s+/'' '$text)); // remove extra spaces
   
$text preg_replace('/-{2,}/'''$text); // remove 2 or more dashes in a row
   
$len strlen($text);
   
    if (
=== $len) {
        return 
0;
    }
   
   
$words 1;
   
    while (
$len--) {
        if (
' ' === $text[$len]) {
            ++
$words;
        }
    }
   
    return 
$words;
}
?>

it strips the pipe "|" chars, which antiword uses to format tables in its plain text output, removes more than one dashes in a row (also used in tables), then counts the words.

counting words using explode() and then count() is not a good idea for huge texts, because it uses much memory to store the text once more as an array. this is why i'm using while() { .. } to walk the string
2010-10-18 07:39:36
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This needs improvement, but works well as is.

<?php
/**
 * Generates an alphabetical index of unique words, and a count of their occurrences, in a file.
 * 
 * This works on html pages or plain text files.
 * This function uses file_get_contents, so it 
 * is possible to use a url instead of a local filename.
 * 
 * Change the search pattern at 
 * <code> $junk = preg_match('/[^a-zA-Z]/', $word); </code>
 * if you want to keep words with numbers or other characters. The pattern
 * I've set searches for anything that is not an upper or lowercase letter,
 * you may want something else.
 * 
 * The array returned will look something like this:
 * <code>
 * Array
 * (
 *     [0] => Array
 *        (
 *            [word] => a
 *            [count] => 21
 *        )
 * 
 *     [1] => Array
 *        (
 *            [word] => ability
 *            [count] => 1
 *        )
 * )
 * </code>
 * 
 * @param string $file The file ( or url ) you want to create an index from.
 * @return array 
 */
function index_page($file) {
   
$index = array();
   
$find = array(
       
'/\r/',
       
'/\n/',
       
'/\s\s+/'
   
);
   
$replace = array(
       
' ',
       
' ',
       
' '
   
);
   
$work file_get_contents($file);
   
$work preg_replace('/[>][<]/''> <'$work);
   
$work strip_tags($work);
   
$work strtolower($work);
   
$work preg_replace($find$replace$work);
   
$work trim($work);
   
$work explode(' '$work);
   
natcasesort($work);
   
$i 0;
    foreach(
$work as $word) {
       
$word trim($word);
       
$junk preg_match('/[^a-zA-Z]/'$word);
        if(
$junk == 1) {
           
$word '';
        }
        if( (!empty(
$word)) && ($word != '') ) {
            if(!isset(
$index[$i]['word'])) { // if not set this is a new index
               
$index[$i]['word'] = $word;
               
$index[$i]['count'] = 1;
            } elseif( 
$index[$i]['word'] == $word ) {  // count repeats
               
$index[$i]['count'] += 1;
            } else { 
// else this is a different word, increment $i and create an entry
               
$i++;
               
$index[$i]['word'] = $word;
               
$index[$i]['count'] = 1;
            }
        }
    }
    unset(
$work);
    return(
$index);
}
?>

example usage:

<?php
$file 
'http://www.php.net/';
// or use a local file, see file_get_contents() for valid filenames and restrictions.

$index index_page($file);
echo 
'<pre>'.print_r($index,true).'</pre>';
?>
2011-04-05 22:08:15
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Автор:
This is my own version of to get SEO meta description from wordpress post content. it is also generic usage function to get the first n words from a string.

<?php
function my_meta_description($text,$n=10)
{
$text=strip_tags($text);  // not neccssary for none HTML
// $text=strip_shortcodes($text); // uncomment only inside wordpress system
$text trim(preg_replace("/\s+/"," ",$text));
$word_array explode(" "$text);
if (
count($word_array) <= $n)
return 
implode(" ",$word_array);
else
{
$text='';
foreach (
$word_array as $length=>$word)
{
   
$text.=$word ;
    if(
$length==$n) break;
    else 
$text.=" ";
}
}
return 
$text;
?>
2012-01-05 11:21:23
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<?php

/***
 * This simple utf-8 word count function (it only counts) 
 * is a bit faster then the one with preg_match_all
 * about 10x slower then the built-in str_word_count
 * 
 * If you need the hyphen or other code points as word-characters
 * just put them into the [brackets] like [^\p{L}\p{N}\'\-]
 * If the pattern contains utf-8, utf8_encode() the pattern,
 * as it is expected to be valid utf-8 (using the u modifier).
 **/

// Jonny 5's simple word splitter
function str_word_count_utf8($str) {
  return 
count(preg_split('~[^\p{L}\p{N}\']+~u',$str));
}
?>
2012-02-03 23:29:55
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.str-word-count.html
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 found out that my function returned an incorrect result for an empty string. I corrected it and I'm also attaching another function - my_strlen.

<?php 

function count_words($string) {
   
// Return the number of words in a string.
   
$stringstr_replace("&#039;""'"$string);
   
$t= array(' '"\t"'=''+''-''*''/''\\'',''.'';'':''['']''{''}''('')''<''>''&''%''$''@''#''^''!''?''~'); // separators
   
$stringstr_replace($t" "$string);
   
$stringtrim(preg_replace("/\s+/"" "$string));
   
$num0;
    if (
my_strlen($string)>0) {
       
$word_arrayexplode(" "$string);
       
$numcount($word_array);
    }
    return 
$num;
}

function 
my_strlen($s) {
   
// Return mb_strlen with encoding UTF-8.
   
return mb_strlen($s"UTF-8");
}

?>
2012-08-15 10:08:18
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.str-word-count.html
Turns out the charlist is set by default for the web. For example, the string

Copyright &copy; ABC Ltd.

is 3 words in the cli and 4 words if executing in web context.
2015-06-19 10:01:41
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.str-word-count.html
This function doesn't handle  accents, even in a locale with accent.
<?php
echo str_word_count("Is working"); // =2

setlocale(LC_ALL'fr_FR.utf8');
echo 
str_word_count("Not wôrking"); // expects 2, got 3.
?>

Cito solution treats punctuation as words and thus isn't a good workaround.
<?php
function str_word_count_utf8($str) {
      return 
count(preg_split('~[^\p{L}\p{N}\']+~u',$str));
}
echo 
str_word_count_utf8("Is wôrking"); //=2
echo str_word_count_utf8("Not wôrking."); //=3
?>

My solution:
<?php
function str_word_count_utf8($str) {
   
$a preg_split('/\W+/u'$str, -1PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);
    return 
count($a);
}
echo 
str_word_count_utf8("Is wôrking"); // = 2
echo str_word_count_utf8("Is wôrking! :)"); // = 2
?>
2018-01-08 18:09:56
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.str-word-count.html
preg_match_all based function to mimic str_word_count behavior:

<?php
function mb_str_word_count($str$format 2$charlist '') {
  if (
$format || $format 2) {
    throw new 
InvalidArgumentException('Argument #2 ($format) must be a valid format value');
  }
 
$count preg_match_all('#[\p{L}\p{N}][\p{L}\p{N}\'' $charlist ']*#u'$str$matches$format === PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
  if (
$format === 0) {
    return 
$count;
  }
 
$matches $matches[0] ?? [];
  if (
$format === 2) {
   
$result = [];
    foreach (
$matches as $match) {
     
$result[$match[1]] = $match[0];
    }
    return 
$result;
  }
  return 
$matches;
}
?>
2020-10-22 11:16:42
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/function.str-word-count.html
//To get an accurate word count in English, some diacritical marks have 
// to be added for words like née, Chloë, naïve, coöpt, façade, piñata, etc. 
$count = str_word_count($str, 0, 'éëïöçñÉËÏÖÇÑ');

//To get the word count for any European language using a Roman alphabet:
$count = str_word_count($str, 0, 'äëïöüÄËÏÖÜáǽćéíĺńóŕśúźÁǼĆÉÍĹŃÓŔŚÚŹ'.
   'àèìòùÀÈÌÒÙãẽĩõñũÃẼĨÕÑŨâêîôûÂÊÎÔÛăĕğĭŏœ̆ŭĂĔĞĬŎŒ̆Ŭ'.
   'āēīōūĀĒĪŌŪőűŐŰąęįųĄĘĮŲåůÅŮæÆøØýÝÿŸþÞẞßđĐıIœŒ'.
   'čďěľňřšťžČĎĚĽŇŘŠŤŽƒƑðÐłŁçģķļșțÇĢĶĻȘȚħĦċėġżĊĖĠŻʒƷǯǮŋŊŧŦ');
2021-02-23 17:26:55
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