Re: working word counter

David wrote:

After getting some help working through my bugs, I have what seems to
be a robust, working word counter script. I post it here to benefit
others that might want this in the future and so that if I ever lose
my copy I can come back here to find it Some other scripts that I
used for inspiration failed when confronted with whitespace before the
string or miscalculated when encountering linefeeds and other
non-space spaces, so I made mine better. Definition of words for this
exercise is contiguous groups of characters separated by whitespace.
Maybe it will even be useful to somebody besides me.

Cheers!
--David

function trim(data)
{
while (/\s/.test(data.charAt(0)))
{data=data.substring(1,data.length);}
while (/\s/.test(data.charAt(data.length-1)))
{data=data.substring(0,(data.length-1));}
return data;
}

trim() would be better implemented as:

String.prototype.LTrim = new Function("return this.replace(/^\\s+/,'')")
String.prototype.RTrim = new Function("return this.replace(/\\s+$/,'')")
String.prototype.Trim = new Function("return
this.replace(/^\\s+|\\s+$/g,'')")

as shown in the FAQ at <url: http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ4_16 />

function countWords()
{
var input, wordList, output;
input=document.forms[0].elements[0].value;
input=trim(input);

Using the Trim() method outlined above, this would become:

input = input.Trim();

--

Grant Wagner <gwagner (AT) agricoreunited (DOT) com

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