How can I get the word count at the server side?

If there is no way of getting it at the server side then how can I do it at the client side ?

thanks,
yaniv

Hi Yaniv,

Please, review the following KB article on the subject: Implementing custom Word / Character counter.

Kind regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

Hi Rumen,

In this artical there are the following posts:

" steve malkin, 12/20/2007
This is useful for displaying the word count on the page, but how would I write the wordcount to a hidden field value rather than a span so that I could save the wordcount value to a database when the page is saved ?

Telerik Admin, 1/17/2008
Hi Steve, Could you please open a support ticket and I will send you the requested solution? In order to open a support ticket you should be a customer or to have downloaded some product.

Best regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team "

I am asking the same question.
Don't you have a way to retrieve the editor's built in word count ?

Thanks,
yaniv

Hi Yaniv,

Here is the requested example:

Default.aspx
<script type="text/javascript">
function OnClientLoad(editor)
{
    editor.add_submit(function ()
    {
        var content = editor.get_text(); //returns the editor's content as plain text
        var words = 0;
        if (content)
        {       
            punctRegX = /[!\.?;,:&_\-\-\{\}\[\]\(\)~#'"]/g;
            contentcontent = content.replace(punctRegX, "");
            trimRegX = /(^\s+)|(\s+$)/g;
            contentcontent = content.replace(trimRegX, "");
            if (content)
            {
                splitRegX = /\s+/;
                var array = content.split(splitRegX);
                words = array.length;
            }
        }
      
        var hiddenField = document.getElementById("<%=HiddenField1.ClientID %>"); //get a reference to the HiddenField control
        hiddenField.value = "Words: " + words + " Characters: " + content.length;     
    });
}
</script>

<asp:HiddenField ID="HiddenField1" runat="server" />
<telerik:radeditor runat="server" ID="RadEditor1" OnClientLoad="OnClientLoad"></telerik:radeditor>
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" />
  
Default.aspx.cs:
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Response.Write(HiddenField1.Value);
    }

Another approach is to obtain the content via the RadEditor1.Content server property and using regular expression to count the words directly on the server.

Best regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

The regular expression /\s+/ can't seem to recognize line breaks properly. For example, the below text

the quick brown fox

gives a word count of 4. When I insert multiple line breaks anywhere in the middle, like so

the quick


brown fox

I now get a word count of 11! That's 2 words for each line break.

The online demo, using default behavior, can correctly recognize the line breaks and returns the appropriate word count. Is there a way to emulate this result while using custom statistics? Thanks!

Hi Kevin,

Unfortunately, I was unable to reproduce this problem. Could you please see my test in the following video http://screencast.com/t/8IlDR1LlHb6Y and let me know what I am missing?

Best regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team