PHP: Counting Characters and Words in a File

<?php
$file = "test.txt";

// read into string
$str = file_get_contents($file);

// count no. of characters
$numChar = strlen($str);
echo "This file has ". $numChar . " character(s)";

// count no. of characters withour spaces
$str2 = ereg_replace('[[:space:]]+', '', $str);
$numChar = strlen($str2);
echo "This file has ". $numChar . " character(s) without spaces<br/>";

// count no. of words
$numWords = str_word_count($str);
echo "This file has ". $numWords . " words";

?>

This is how the output looks:

When 'test.txt' is:

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