How to count words in MySQL / regular expression replacer?

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There’s REGEXP_REPLACE available as MySQL user-defined functions.

Word counting: If you can control the data going into the database, you can remove double whitespace before insert. Also if you have to access the word count often, you can compute it once in your code and store the count in the database.

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