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Count words in a HTML text body
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word-count.js
function wordCount(text) {
return text
.replace(/[–,;.:!¡¿\-\?\(\)]/g, '') // remove punctuation
.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, ' ') // convert tags into whitespaces
.split(/\s/) // split across whitespaces
.filter(word => word.length) // remove empty keys
.length;
}
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