Text Processing with JavaScript

Recipe 19

Counting Words in a String with Intl.Segmenter()

Task

Suppose you have a weblog that allows users to submit articles. You have a requirement that each article should have a minimum word count of 500. You want to create a function that gives feedback to users about their article’s word count. To achieve this, your application needs to determine the number of words in a given text string.

One crude solution to this problem is to split the text string by spaces and count the resulting segments. However, this approach may not work correctly in cases where there are multiple consecutive spaces between words, or when the article is written in a language that doesn’t use spaces to separate words, such as Korean or Japanese.

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