/**

 * Smarty plugin

 * @package Smarty

 * @subpackage plugins

 */

/**

 * Smarty count_characters modifier plugin

 *

 * Type:     modifier

 * Name:     count_characteres

 * Purpose:  count the number of characters in a text

 * @link http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.modifier.count.characters.php

 *          count_characters (Smarty online manual)

 * @param string

 * @param boolean include whitespace in the character count

 * @return integer

 */

function smarty_modifier_count_characters($string, $include_spaces = false)

{

    if ($include_spaces)

       return(strlen($string));

    return preg_match_all("/[^\s]/",$string, $match);

}

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