The most important part in my string is..it contains chinese characters... For an example
I come from 香港<---so totally 5 words instead of length = 15 Thx all of you. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:23 AM, RobG <robg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Jul 28, 5:09 am, Liam Byrne <l...@onsight.ie> wrote: > > A letter count is FAR easier - just get the string's length. > > The length of the string will give you a *character* count. I would > not inlcude punctuation, white space, etc. in a *letter* count. For > number of letters, try: > > s.replace(/[^a-zA-Z]/g,'').length; > > > -- > Rob