how to find and count the words in a string?

[eluser]basty_dread[/eluser]
for example

$Content = "<h1 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,cursive;">this is my page and the page is the only page that is nice<br />
</span></h1>";


// the only words that will appear in the design view of ckeditor is this:

this is my page and the page is the only page that is nice

// what i want is to count only the words in design view.

is it possible?


thank you very much.
i hope you could answer this saidai jagan..
thank you