Regular Expression for accurate word-count using JavaScript

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This should do what you’re after:

value.match(/\S+/g).length;

Rather than splitting the string, you’re matching on any sequence of non-whitespace characters.

There’s the added bonus of being easily able to extract each word if needed 😉

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