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CountGlyphs

Question

Is there a markup that will tell me the number of characters or words on a page?

Answer

The countglyphs.phpΔ script adds {$Glyphs} and {$Words} markups, which are replaced with the number of glyphs (non-whitespace characters) and words respectively. The algorithm excludes any HTML output from the count, as well as anything produced by the page's headers and footers (i.e., it counts only the wiki markup output).

Example

This page contains 1731 glyphs and 269 words, where

Notes and Comments

• This recipe was last tested on PmWiki version: 2.2.34
• This recipe requires at least PmWiki version: 2.1.5

The algorithm considers a "word" to be any sequence of non-whitespace characters, thus Hello.World and !#@#$ are both counted as a single word.

Note also that the number of glyphs reported may be slightly different from a direct count, because of the existence of the {$Glyphs} and {$Words} markups themselves in the page being counted. The {$Glyphs} markup may report an incorrect number of international characters.

See Also

Contributors

• Pm, 2005-Mar-25
• BenWilson, 2006-May-19 Corrected for v2.1.5
• Petko October 15, 2011, at 09:37 AM fixed PHP warning in recent versions.