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How to count a number of words in given string in JavaScript?
Using regular expressions it is easy to count number of words in a given string in javascript. There are some steps to be followed to count number of words
Steps to follow
We know that a sentence or a phrase is made up of words that are separated with spaces in between and there are some instances in which the words are separated by 2 or more spaces. A developer must notice all these points while calculating no of words.
Step-1
Exclude the start and end spaces of a string. The following line of regex expression will remove the start and end spaces of the given string.
str.replace(/(^\s*)|(\s*$)/gi,"");
Step-2
Try to reduce multiple spaces to a single space.
str.replace(/[ ]{2,}/gi," ");
Step-3
Try to exclude a new line with a start spacing.
str.replace(/
/,"
");
After performing all the above mention steps we will have a string with a single spaced words. On splitting the resulted string using split() method the words are going to join by a comma instead of spaces. Now using length() method we can get the resulted word count as shown in the following example.
Example
<html> <body> <script> function countWords(str) { str = str.replace(/(^\s*)|(\s*$)/gi,""); str = str.replace(/[ ]{2,}/gi," "); str = str.replace(/
/,"
"); return str.split(' ').length; } document.write(countWords(" Tutorix is one of the best E-learning platforms")); </script> </body> </html>
Output
8