Regular Expression for accurate word-count using JavaScript

Question

I\'m trying to put together a regular expression for a JavaScript command that accurately counts the number of words in a textarea.

One solution I had found is as fo

Answer 1

For me this gave the best results:

value.split(/\b\W+\b/).length

with

var words = value.split(/\b\W+\b/)

you get all words.

Explanation:

• \b is a word boundary
• \W is a NON-word character, capital usually means the negation
• '+' means 1 or more characters or the prefixed character class

I recommend learning regular expressions. It's a great skill to have because they are so powerful. ;-)