Question

i have a database and I want to sort the a column according to the number of words included in each field.

Ex:

a b (has 2 words)
a b c d e (has 5 words)
a b c (has 3 words)

And i want ‘a b c d e’ to be the first in sort result, and ‘a b c’ the second. .. etc

Do you have a solution fot it?

Edit: Thanks guys for quicly answers!
All answers was good but meanwhile i solved using same sollutions found here mysql-substr-count

Answer 1

this should do the trick, but maybe there’s a better (faster) solution:

SELECT *
FROM table
ORDER BY LENGTH(column) - LENGTH(REPLACE(column, ' ', ''))