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  1. <?php
  2. function rip_tags($string) {
  3.  
  4.     // ----- remove HTML TAGs -----
  5.     $string = preg_replace ('/<[^>]*>/', ' ', $string);
  6.  
  7.     // ----- remove control characters -----
  8.     $string = str_replace("\r", '', $string);    // --- replace with empty space
  9.     $string = str_replace("\n", ' ', $string);   // --- replace with space
  10.     $string = str_replace("\t", ' ', $string);   // --- replace with space
  11.  
  12.     // ----- remove multiple spaces -----
  13.     $string = trim(preg_replace('/ {2,}/', ' ', $string));
  14.  
  15.     return $string; 
  16. }
  17. $str = '<p>&nbsp;<p>hello world!</p><p>&nbsp;</p></p>';
  18. $str = trim(html_entity_decode($str));
  19. $str = rip_tags($str);
  20. $c = str_word_count($str);
  21. echo $c;
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language:
PHP (php 7.3.5)
created:
5 years ago
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