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Revision: 51534
at September 27, 2011 22:25 by vagrantradio


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<?php
$f = "test.txt";

// get string
$str = file_get_contents($f);

// count characters
$numChar = strlen($str);
echo "This file has ". $numChar . " character(s)";

// count characters without spaces
$str2 = ereg_replace('[[:space:]]+', '', $str);
$numChar = strlen($str2);
echo "This file has ". $numChar . " character(s) without spaces";

// count words
$numWords = str_word_count($str);
echo "This file has ". $numWords . " words";

?>

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Counting Characters in PHP

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PHP