Index: lams_central/web/includes/javascript/common.js
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/lams_central/web/includes/javascript/common.js,v
diff -u -r1.8 -r1.8.2.1
--- lams_central/web/includes/javascript/common.js	30 Apr 2014 22:47:32 -0000	1.8
+++ lams_central/web/includes/javascript/common.js	15 Jun 2015 22:42:48 -0000	1.8.2.1
@@ -107,4 +107,16 @@
     	xmlhttp.open("POST", url, false);
     	xmlhttp.send();
     }
+    
+function getNumberOfWords(value, isRemoveHtmlTags) {
+    	
+	//HTML tags stripping 
+	if (isRemoveHtmlTags) {
+		value = value.replace(/&nbsp;/g, '').replace(/<\/?[a-z][^>]*>/gi, '');
+	}
+	value = value.trim();
+    	
+	var wordCount = value ? (value.replace(/['";:,.?\-!]+/g, '').match(/\S+/g) || []).length : 0;
+	return wordCount;
+}
 	
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