Question

How to count the letters, spaces, numbers and other characters of a string in PHP

Answer 1

function countChars($s) {
    $letters = $spaces = $numbers = $otherchars = 0;
           
    for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($s); $i++) {
        if (ctype_alpha($s[$i])) {
                $letters++;
        }
        else if (ctype_digit($s[$i])) {
                $numbers++;
            }
        else if (ctype_space($s[$i])) {
                $spaces++;
            }
        else {
                $otherchars++;
            }
    }
    echo "letters: " . $letters . "\n";
    echo "spaces: " . $spaces . "\n";
    echo "numbers: " . $numbers . "\n";
    echo "others: " . $otherchars . "\n";
}
         
$s = "PHP $100%     Prog()ramming   99 !!!";
           
countChars($s);
 
 
 
 
 
/*
run:
 
letters: 14
spaces: 10
numbers: 5
others: 7
 
*/

 

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