// jscs: disable /* global XRegExp */ export default function (s) { let nonANumLetters = new XRegExp("[^\\s\\d\\p{L}]", 'g'); // all non-alphanumeric letters regexp s = s.replace(/<(.|\n)*?>/g, ' '); // strip tags s = s.replace(nonANumLetters, ''); // 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(' ').length; }