How To Get A String Lenght Without The Spaces?

[bahaa]

How do we get the length of a string without the spaces?

 

I want to count only the words without the spaces.

[Jonathon]

explode it and count the array?

[rob]

I read it as string length without spaces rather than word count. But I'll include methods for both.

 

For string length without spaces:

$string_length = strlen($string) - substr_count($string, ' ');

For word count:

$word_count = str_word_count($string, 0);

[Larry]

Nice solution, Rob!