How to count '<BR>'?

[Kenshin]

I would like to count <br> in a variable

example:

$a = "heej<br>how are you?<br>";

$b = count_string("<br>");

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ofcourse count_string doesnt excist 🙁

Thank in advance for helping me 🙂

[destop]

you could try

$explode_brs = explode($your_string, "<br>");
$count_brs = count($explode_brs);

you would then have to subtract 1 to get the number of breaks

eg.

word<br>word<br>word

would give an array count of 3(0,1,2) by subtracting 1 you get the actual number of <br>

i havnt tried this so if it's wrong sorry!!

[Kenshin]

i tried something like your example before.. but i tried it again;

the example you gave returns without substract '1' and ofcourse with '0'.

Still thnx for trying 🙂

[Kenshin]

I've found a solution:

explode & split cant have a string as seporator. Only a single character. I found it out at php.net.

This is my code now;

<?php

$test = "word<br>word<br>word";

$test=eregi_replace('<br[[:space:]]*/?[[:space:]]*>', "\n", $test);

echo "TEST: ".$test."<BR><BR>";

$array=explode(chr(10), $test);

$total = count($array) - 1;


echo "Total: ".$total;

?>

maybe someone has a better solution?