gp-pay-per-word-split-words-on-specific-characters.js

/**
 * Gravity Perks // Pay Per Word // Split Words on Specific Characters (JS)
 * https://gravitywiz.com/documentation/gravity-forms-pay-per-word/
 */
gform.addFilter( 'gpppw_word_count', function( wordCount, text, gwppw, ppwField, formId ) {
  // Splits words on periods, underscores, and asterisks.
	var words = text.replace( /[\.\_\*]/g, ' ' ).match( /\S+/g );
	return words == null ? 0 : words.length;
} );

gp-pay-per-word-split-words-on-specific-characters.php

<?php
/**
 * Gravity Perks // Pay Per Word // Split Words on Specific Characters (PHP)
 * https://gravitywiz.com/documentation/gravity-forms-pay-per-word/
 */
add_filter( 'gpppw_word_count', function( $word_count, $words ) {
  // Splits words on periods, underscores and asterisks.
  $words = preg_replace( '/[\.\_\*]/', ' ', $words );
	return count( array_filter( preg_split( '/[ \n\r]+/', trim( $words ) ) ) );
}, 10, 2 );

@mohitit How would you want to use this with a character counter?

i am using pay per word perk first time... Can we customize this this plugin to pay per character?

@mohitit I'm not sure why I never thought of it, but yes, this can easily be modified to support paying per character. New snippet here: https://gist.github.com/spivurno/bf3b4a944b307d8ec57e29f77cd0ac91