smarty/docs/en/designers/language-modifiers/language-modifier-count-paragraphs.xml

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 <sect1 id="language.modifier.count.paragraphs">
  <title>count_paragraphs</title>
  <para>
   This is used to count the number of paragraphs in a variable.
  </para>
  <example>
   <title>count_paragraphs</title>
   <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$smarty = new Smarty;
$smarty->assign('articleTitle', "War Dims Hope for Peace. Child's Death Ruins
Couple's Holiday.\n\nMan is Fatally Slain. Death Causes Loneliness, Feeling of Isolation.");
$smarty->display('index.tpl');
?>
]]>
   </programlisting>
   <para>
    Where index.tpl is:
   </para>
   <programlisting>
<![CDATA[
{$articleTitle}
{$articleTitle|count_paragraphs}
]]>
   </programlisting>
   <para>
    This will output:
   </para>
   <screen>
<![CDATA[
War Dims Hope for Peace. Child's Death Ruins Couple's Holiday.
     
Man is Fatally Slain. Death Causes Loneliness, Feeling of Isolation.
2
]]>
   </screen>
  </example>
     <para>See also <link linkend="language.modifier.count.characters">count_characters</link>, 
   			<link linkend="language.modifier.count.sentences">count_sentences</link> and
			<link linkend="language.modifier.count.words">count_words</link>
			
			</para>
</sect1>
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