Not necessarily a ready-made script, but plenty of scripting languages can do that job in a few lines of code.
Here's a question for you: How would the word "bearmouse" be counted? As neither bear nor mouse because it's one word? Or as 1 bear and 1 mouse? > On Jun 22, 2021, at 06:25, Zoe Barnett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello. I'm a BBEdit user and not familiar with scripting. I'm looking for a > script to do this: > > I have a file list.txt like this: > > ------------ > > dog > > cat > > mouse > > bear > > report > > popular pet > > recent report > > ---------- > > > > And another file content.txt like this: > > ------------- > > A recent report showed that a dog is the most popular pet, closely followed > by cat and bird. Unsurprisingly, no survey respondents liked snakes. > > (para 2) > > (para 3) > > ----------------- > > > > I want a script that finds all the phrases in list.txt, highlights them in > content.txt, and outputs a text file like this: > > --------------- > > dog 1 > > cat 1 > > mouse 0 > > bear 0 > > report 1 > > popular pet 1 > > recent report 1 > > ------------------ > > > > The main thing is that the search terms can be more than one word. > > Is there a script out there? > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" > rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: > <https://twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/79f5f025-8a5c-4c10-8261-49119ea49111n%40googlegroups.com. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/D1D94483-BD86-4BD5-A7A9-9E030DA65E2F%40gmail.com.
