Comments on: Count number of words in a MySQL column

By: Imane

Imane — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:39:46 +0000

GREAT tip, i am trying to use this select statement to show all the words and sort them by number of occurence (how many times that occur). Any help on this would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks again

By: Krisna

Krisna — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:09:07 +0000

@cormac : did you mean counting a certain word each row? if that's your mean try to read this

By: cormac

cormac — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:53:32 +0000

Has anyony managed an SQL query that will county the freuquency of words in column of a table?

By: Al

Al — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:15:45 +0000

That’s bloody awesome – very nice thinking outside of the box. Works a treat! Many thanks saves me bring everything in and doing it with php!

By: Ajay Arjunan

Ajay Arjunan — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:44:08 +0000

Great !!! Thanks for this query.

By: BL

BL — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:31:43 +0000

The real solution is to replace double or more spaces in the first LENGTH():

SELECT SUM( LENGTH(REPLACE(REPLACE(name,’ ‘,’ ‘),’ ‘,’ ‘)) – LENGTH(REPLACE(name, ‘ ‘, ”))+1)
FROM table;

Replacing double or more spaces in the second LENGTH() won’t modify the result, because it has the same effect as the first solution has: all spaces are removed from text.

By: Knut Urdalen

Knut Urdalen — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:03:19 +0000

Very nice Wasif It saved my day! Thanks!

By: Wasif

Wasif — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:20:37 +0000

To avoid such problem, first replace double spaces with a single space and then use this a solution may be (not tested)
LENGTH(REPLACE(REPLACE(name, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘), ‘ ‘, ”))+1)

By: Hussain

Hussain — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:13:52 +0000

Thanks alot..
but if you have two spaces thogether .. it will be counted as 2 words

any one have solution ?

By: jim cicon

jim cicon — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:09:26 +0000

Really slick, thanks for the tip