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dexter
dexter

Reputation: 1207

want to read number of words and charecter using javascript

consider, in my javascript i am getting :

function callBack_Show(result) {
//where result is in jsonp format

var artical= result.Artical;

now artical contains some text,

i want to read number of words and characters in it and display them the words can be separated by: blank space, fullstop,comma etc and i want to do it in same javascript function (callBack_Show(result) )

Upvotes: 0

Views: 244

Answers (2)

Christian C. Salvadó
Christian C. Salvadó

Reputation: 827286

To get the number of words, you can split the text using a regular expression where you can define what is your criteria for separating words.

To get the number of characters, you can use the length property of the String, eg.:

var words = artical.split(/[\s.,]/).length; // whitespace, dot and comma
var characters = artical.length;

Upvotes: 3

jonchang
jonchang

Reputation: 1544

To calculate the number of words you want to use the String.split() method, and then use the length property of the resultant Array. To count the number of characters use the String.length property.

Upvotes: 1

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