Exclude count for html spacing

Question

I have following two div tags and would like to count only words/character that are human readable.

<div>Pickup</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>

When I use PHP strlen() , they both return a same value and I cannot use it to show only the Pickup. Same scenario when I use str_word_count().

Any ideas?

How are you reading the text inside the divs>? Using a DOM Parser? Using a RegEx? — Amal Murali, Oct 26 '13 at 14:24
using just a normal php. Here is my code to read them. $field_str_len = strlen(trim($input_fields[$field->field_name]->input)); — redcoder, Oct 26 '13 at 14:38
where $input_fields[$field->field_name]->input produce
Pickup
and

with different parameter — redcoder, Oct 26 '13 at 14:40

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 26 '13 at 14:31

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First decode html entities and remove all html tags:

$text = '<div>Pickup</div>';
echo strip_tags(html_entity_decode($text)); // This show up "Pickup" only

Then count words:

str_word_count($text); // This should return 1

answered Oct 26 '13 at 14:31

Tony Dinh

I want to maintain the div tag, just want to get rid of the – redcoder Oct 26 '13 at 14:37

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