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

you could extend/change you methods like this

document.querySelector("#wordcount").innerHTML = document.querySelector("#editor").value.split(/\b\(.*?)\b/).length -1; if you want to match things like email-addresses as well

and

document.querySelector("#wordcount").innerHTML = document.querySelector("#editor").value.trim().split(/\s+/g).length -1;

also try using \s as its the \w for unicode

source:http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclass.html