How can PHP be optimized to accurately count the character length of individual letters in a sentence?

To accurately count the character length of individual letters in a sentence in PHP, you can use a combination of functions such as `str_split()` to split the sentence into an array of characters and then loop through the array to count the occurrences of each letter. You can store the counts in an associative array where the keys are the letters and the values are the counts. 

$sentence = "Hello, world!";
$letter_counts = [];

$letters = str_split(preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z]/', '', $sentence)); // Split the sentence into an array of letters

foreach ($letters as $letter) {
    $letter = strtolower($letter); // Convert to lowercase for case-insensitive counting
    if (isset($letter_counts[$letter])) {
        $letter_counts[$letter]++;
    } else {
        $letter_counts[$letter] = 1;
    }
}

print_r($letter_counts);

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PHP string functions character length individual letters optimization

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