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If there are script and style elements, you'll need to remove them, because they will add to the word count too. On Dec 16, 2:44 pm, RobS <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to answer the question asked by a client of mine: can you > tell me how many words there are on my web site? > > Sure, I said, I'll just ask BBEdit to tell me. But I suspected my all- > time favourite app was inflating the count a little, so to find out I > copied the text of one page of the site, as presented in a browser, > into a new BBE doc, counted it there and found it had 2159 words. > However, BBE reports the actual HTML file has 2970 words, so obviously > the count function is NOT ignoring the code. > > Is there maybe a Pref somewhere I've missed? If not, can someone > suggest a better way to get a word count of all the pages on a rather > large site? I know how many words (419) there are in the metadata and > navigation stuff at the top of every page, so I can manually subtract > that, but even doing so I still get a higher count than I should -- by > almost 20%. > > Rob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group.
