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Character count minus spaces

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floofy7

floofy7

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Jul 24, 2006
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I need this character count to NOT include spaces typed in each of the 4 fields.

Can you help?

Thanks! :)

MY CODE:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "<html xmlns="<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function countChars()
{
document.form1.count_display.value = (document.form1.text_1.value.length + document.form1.text_2.value.length + document.form1.text_3.value.length + document.form1.text_4.value.length);
}

</script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="" name="form1" id="form1">
<p><input name="text_1" onkeyup="countChars();" onblur="countChars();" /></p>
<p><input name="text_2" onkeyup="countChars();" onblur="countChars();" /></p>
<p><input name="text_3" onkeyup="countChars();" onblur="countChars();" /></p>
<p><input name="text_4" onkeyup="countChars();" onblur="countChars();" /></p>
<br />
<p>Char Count: <input type="text" name="count_display" value="0" size="4" readonly="readonly" /></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
 
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You can try it using a replace method:
Code: 
...
var frm = document.form1;
frm.count_display.value = frm.text_1.value.replace(" ","").length + frm.text_2.value.replace(" ","").length + frm.text_3.value.replace(" ","").length + frm.text_4.value.replace(" ","").length;
...
The code is hardly optimised, but it ought to show how you can use replace to replace all spaces (" ") with an empty string ("").

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[tt]function countChars()
{
var rx=/\w/g;
var s="";
var n=0;
with (document.form1) {
for (var i=1;i<5;i++) {
s+=elements["text_"+i].value;
}
if (rx.test(s)) {
n=s.match(rx).length;
}
count_display.value=n;
}
}[/tt]
 
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In case the above filtered too many, you can use an expression strictly excluding blankspace nothing else.
[tt]
[red]//[/red]var rx=/\w/g;
var rx=/[^ ]/g;
[/tt]
But one can image whole spectrum of filter between the two limits.
 
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