From 6e2765da701a8290784bc66e8e2f1e70656db397 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harry Hope <harry.hope@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 01:22:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ignore non-words in word counter

---
 ghost/admin/utils/word-count.js | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ghost/admin/utils/word-count.js b/ghost/admin/utils/word-count.js
index 81b6577121..164a141f49 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/utils/word-count.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/utils/word-count.js
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 // jscs: disable
 function wordCount(s) {
-    s = s.replace(/(^\s*)|(\s*$)/gi, ''); // exclude  start and end white-space
-    s = s.replace(/[ ]{2,}/gi, ' '); // 2 or more space to 1
-    s = s.replace(/\n /gi, '\n'); // exclude newline with a start spacing
-    s = s.replace(/\n+/gi, '\n');
+    s = s.replace(/<(.|\n)*?>/g, ' '); // strip tags
+    s = s.replace(/[^\w\s]/g, ''); // ignore non-alphanumeric letters
+    s = s.replace(/(^\s*)|(\s*$)/gi, ''); // exclude starting and ending white-space
+    s = s.replace(/\n /gi, ' '); // convert newlines to spaces
+    s = s.replace(/\n+/gi, ' ');
+    s = s.replace(/[ ]{2,}/gi, ' '); // convert 2 or more spaces to 1
 
-    return s.split(/ |\n/).length;
+    return s.split(' ').length;
 }
 
 export default wordCount;