Question

How to count the white spaces in a string in PHP

Answer 1

function countWhitespaceCharacters($str) {
    $count = 0;
    $length = strlen($str);
    
    for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
        if (ctype_space($str[$i])) {
            $count++;
        }
    }
    
    return $count;
}

$str = "PHP \n  Programming \r Language \t ";

echo "Total white spaces: " . countWhitespaceCharacters($str);



/*
run:
   
Total white spaces: 10
   
*/

 

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