help with strlen

[Anon]

I am trying to modify a function I have. It counts the number of words.

I would like to modify it to NOT count words with only 1 or 2 characters.

Here is the function:

function word_count($item1) {

$countitem = explode(" ", $item1);
$tot_words = count($countitem);
return $tot_words;

}
I am using php 3...
Any help is greatly appreciated

[mharju]

--snip--
function word_count($str, $minWordLen=2) {
settype($tot_words,"int");
$candidates=split(" ",$str);
foreach ($candidates as $candidate)
if(strlen($candidate)>$minWordLen)
$tot_words++;

return $tot_words;
}
--snap--

🙂Mikko

[Anon]

Hey Mikko,

thanks for your help...this worked!!!!

Colin

[mharju]

No problem, glad I could help.

🙂Mikko

[Anon]

but if that worked you don't use PHP 3 ... because foreach() is a PHP 4 Function.

Just for your Info 🙂