I have a problem, counting words didn't start from 1?

This is my code

var words = input.value.match(/\s[\w\u0402-\u045f]+/ig);

if (words) {
    wordCount.innerHTML = words.length;
} else {
    wordCount.innerHTML = 0;
}

Top comments (8)

Fernando Crozetta • Dec 13 '19

I think your regex is excluding the first word.
I chenged the example in developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

var paragraph = 'The quick';
var regex = /\s[\w\u0402-\u045f]+/ig;
var found = paragraph.match(regex);

console.log(found);
console.log(found.length)

Can you share what are you trying to do with this code?

ivkeMilioner • Dec 13 '19

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ivkeMilioner • Dec 13 '19 • Edited

I need accurate counting. Code didn't count first word.

Fernando Crozetta • Dec 13 '19

I think the regex expression is not correct, for some reason. Alternatively, you can try to split the string into an array, and loop each element. Not sure about performance in this case

ivkeMilioner • Dec 13 '19

It is correct. Counting Cyrillic words. But it starts counting from 0 not from 1.

Fernando Crozetta • Dec 13 '19

check the code i posted above. It has 2 words, but if you print found, it shows only the second word. The length is 1.
So, it starts counting on 1, but for some reason, your regex is skipping the first word. If you have only one word in the paragraph variable, the result is null.