Hello,
Perl is a very good language for this
problem as il allows to write things
very simply.
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#!/usr/bin/perl
my $line = 0;
@ARGV = ("/Users/michel/Desktop/and.txt");
#write here the path to your file
$count = 0;
$word = " ";
while (<>) {
foreach $word (m/(\band\b)/ig) {
#\b here means here word boundaries
#if you don't know what it is see
#grep reference inside your BBEdit application
#I have done here a case insensitive search
#if you want a case sensitive search remove the
#"i".
$count ++;
}
}
print "The number of occurences is: ", $count,"\n";
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Michael Havlicek
On Mar 19, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Kjetil Rå Hauge wrote:
Elie Boulos wrote:
I need to find the number of instances of an arbitrary string
in a single text file, is this possible through AppleScript?
Search matches doesn't have such a number. For example, I need to
find out the count of the word 'and' in
a text containing "He bought a hammer and a nail and a tape and
a screw driver" (that's 3 and's)
Possible?
I'd use the replace command and replace "and" by "and". The result
will be the number of occurrences replaced:
set theWord to "and"
set a to replace theWord using theWord searching in contents of
document 1 options {starting at top:true}
display dialog a
But I am sure there are other ways to skin this cat. Using this method
you either have to pay attention to your case sensitivity option so
that the text is not changed into something you do not want, or take
care not to save the document after the search.
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Tel. +47/22856710, fax +47/22854140
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