Word count in each post

[mistake89]

Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a word count in each post.

I write in a blog and we need to count the exact number of characters we have. I don't want to stop someone posting because of the number of character, but just a number in each post.

Exists something like that?

Thank you

[Arantor]

Characters or words? Calculating it on demand, storing it? Showing it to everyone, or only some people?

What are you calling 'words' exactly? Computers are kind of dumb like that, they don't know what a 'word' is.

[Kindred]

not a word count... or a character count (up) --- but this mod shows characters REMAINING before the post is cut off...

http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3722

[mistake89]

Perfect, it's a characters counter and this has to be visible to everyone in each post. Like in the end of the message
"Mistake89 used 250 characters".

Is it possible?

[Arantor]

That depends on what you're calling a character, too.

Are line breaks characters? I'm also presuming that you mean an apostrophe is a single character too? (SMF does not store apostrophes as single characters. Amongst many other things)

(This clarifications might seem stupid but they are important.)

And I'm still trying to work out if you mean characters or words at this point :-/

[mistake89]

Yes, everything is a characters, a space as well.

So, not a word. I mean "home" are 4 characters.

Thank you