How do we count paragraphs or newlines?

Thanks for your question; there are many possible solutions to this. One is to use the in-built function called substr_count, which counts the number of times that a particular substring appears in the whole string.

For instance if you want to count line breaks - occurrances of the \n character, then this can be done very simply with this function.

Here is an example of how to use substr_count to count newlines:


<?php



$sentence = "This is a sentence that has lots 



of



line breaks



in it



for no apparent 



reason!!!";



$numberoflinebreaks = substr_count($sentence,"\n");



echo "There are $numberoflinebreaks line breaks in that sentence";

//There are ten line breaks in that sentence

?>

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