How to Reading, Counting Line, Words, and Characters in File With PHP

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We have share in this tutorial how to Reading, Counting Line, Words, and Characters in File With PHP. First, read the file into a string with a function such as file_get_contents(). The numbers of words and characters can then be obtained by running the str_word_count() and strlen () function on the string. 
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// read file into array
$array = file($file) or die("Can not read from file");
// count lines in the file
echo "Counted " . count($array) ." line(s). 
";
// count characters with space
$numCharSpace = strlen($str);
echo "Counted " .$numCharSpace. " character(s) with space.
";
// count characters without space

$newStrs = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $str);
$numChar = strlen($newStrs);
echo "Counted " .$numChar. " character(s) without space.
";

//counts words
$numWords = str_word_count($str);
echo "Counted " . $numWords . " word(s).
";
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