Dev Bit: SQL word count & character count with Postgres
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At Lingohub we utilize Postgres and Elasticsearch to handle our large text base. Is there a way to do an SQL word count for our translations? There is. I wanted to share with you two SQL queries for character count and word count of a text column:
# Character count
select sum(length(YOUR_COLUMN)) from YOUR_TABLE;
# Word count
select sum(array_length(regexp_split_to_array(YOUR_COLUMN, '\s'),1)) from YOUR_TABLE;