How to count the number of characters without spaces?

Question

I\'m new to this, so please understand me;/

I\'m creating an app in appery.io and it has to count the number of letters of text inserted by the app user(without spac

Answer 1

To ignore a literal space, you can use regex with a space:

// get the string
let myString = getElementById("input").value;

// use / /g to remove all spaces from the string
let remText = myString.replace(/ /g, "");

// get the length of the string after removal
let length = remText.length;

To ignore all white space(new lines, spaces, tabs) use the \s quantifier:

// get the string
let myString = getElementById("input").value;

// use the \s quantifier to remove all white space
let remText = myString.replace(/\s/g, "")

// get the length of the string after removal
let length = remText.length;

Answer 2

You can count white spaces and subtract it from lenght of string for example

var my_string = "John Doe's iPhone6";
var spaceCount = (my_string.split(" ").length - 1);
console.log(spaceCount);
console.log('total count:- ', my_string.length - spaceCount)

Answer 3

Use this:

var myString = getElementById("input").value;
var withoutSpace = myString.replace(/ /g,"");
var length = withoutSpace.length;