How to count how many characters in a paragraph?

[komrad]

I want to be able to count how many characters are in a paragraph excluding whitespace. Anybody help me?

[noreaum]

http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php

[dman_2007]

Here you go :

 $para = <<<EDT
This is just a test paragraph.
Second line in the test paragraph.
Third line in the test paragraph.
EDT;
 
 $new_para = preg_replace('/\s+/','', $para);
 
 echo strlen($new_para); 

[komrad]

Here you go :

 $para = <<<EDT
This is just a test paragraph.
Second line in the test paragraph.
Third line in the test paragraph.
EDT;
 
 $new_para = preg_replace('/\s+/','', $para);
 
 echo strlen($new_para); 

Is whitespace counted in this code? Ok, would try it.

[trib4lmaniac]

Is whitespace counted in this code? Ok, would try it.

No. This line removes all whitespace from the paragraph.

$new_para = preg_replace('/\s+/','', $para); 

[AlienDev]

If you want to keep most of the whitespace (spaces newlines etc), you can use trim($var) to get rid of whitespace only at the start and end of the string.