word count / word extract

[Anon]

hi all,

is there any method of counting words (NOT characters) in a string.

i.e. if there is a variable $str

$str="i am fine";

is there any way so that i can get only 1 word (here "i") or 2 words (here "i am"), etc.....

and also count the total no. of words in the string (here 3)

thanks in advance

vishwa vivek

[Anon]

One way (not the best possible but..) is to split those words and handle them as variables.

Like that:
$str = "i am fine";
-->
list($word1,$word2,$word3) = explode(" ", $str);

so now it "explodes" the string to three variables using blankspace " " as a "splitter".

Better solutions are welcome :-)