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[mm_wordcount]

Description

Link: [mm_wordcount]

Author: Miles

Category: String

Version: 8.x

License:

Posted: May. 05, 2006

Updated: Jun. 30, 2006

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This tag, courtesy of a lil help from the lasso community, computes the number of words in a given string.

Parameters

-string

string, required

must enter some text for it to operate!

Sample Usage

[mm_wordcount: -string='The Quickbrown Fox...']

or

[mm_wordcount: -string=(field:'somefieldvalue')]

Source Code

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<?LassoScript
	
	define_tag:'mm_wordcount',
    -description='Returns the number of words in a string.',
    -required='string';

	local: 'v_text' = (#string);

	#v_Text ->(replace: ' - ', '') &
			(replace: ' , ', '') &
			(replace: ' & ', '') &
			(replace: ' ? ', '') &
			(replace: ' % ', '') &
			(replace: ' $ ', '') &
			(replace: ' # ', '') &
			(replace: ' @ ', '') &
			(replace: ' * ', '') &
			(replace: ' ! ', '') &
			(replace: ' > ', '') &
			(replace: ' < ', '') &
			(replace: ' / ', '') &
			(replace: ' \\ ', '') &
			(replace: ' { ', '') &
			(replace: ' } ', '') &
			(replace: ' [ ', '') &
			(replace: ' ] ', '') &
			(replace: ' | ', '') &
			(replace: ' = ', '') &
			(replace: ' + ', '') &
			(replace: ' ( ', '') &
			(replace: ' ) ', '') &
			(replace: ' _ ', '') &
			(replace: ' . ', '') &
			(replace: ' ...', '');
	
	return: (string_findregexp: #v_text, -find='(?:\\w+)')->size;
	
	/define_tag;
		
?>

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