Q:

jQuery: Searching textarea value for words using regex

I have the following code:
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function(){
        var txt = new Array();
        var count = 0;
        $('textarea[id*="page_parts_attributes_"]').each(function(){
            var html = $(this).html($(this).val());
            var matches = $(html).match(/\b/g)
            if(matches) {
                txt[count] = jQuery.trim(matches).length / 2
                count++;
            }
        });
        var final_count = eval(txt.join('+'));
        console.log(Math.floor(final_count));
    })
</script>

I am basically trying to search the textarea for words. I have to convert the value of the textarea to HTML, then I want to search the HTML for words... but its not working...
any ideas?

A:

var html = $(this).html($(this).val());
var matches = $(html).match(/\b/g)

should be
var matches = $(this).val().match(/\b/g);

