> I want to check a string and return the amount of words present
> in it. These
> strings could be quite large, some higher than 100,000
> characters. I realize
> I could explode the string on the whitespace and count the number
> of values.
> However, I'm not sure this would be the most optimized way to do this,
> especially considering there will be some quite large strings passed. Any
> ideas on the most efficient to count the number of words in a
> large string?
$string = "Here is a very long string";
$array = explode(" ", $string);
$count = sizeof($array);
echo $count;
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