> On Jun 22, 2021, at 12:59 PM, Zoe Barnett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> As neither bear nor mouse. I need to count distinct words or exact phrases
> separated by spaces on either side or followed by punctuation like , : ; .
> So
> popular pet,
> (followed by a comma) would get a hit, but
> popular petshops
> wouldn't.
There are a lot of ways to approach this.
The BBEdit folks are brilliant w/ AppleScript and integrating that with BBEdit.
There are also ways to approach this using command line which is very fast, a
little cryptic.
Here's a very simple, probably overly simple NodeJS approach, which can be
modified to work in a web browser.
You would no doubt customize this to suit the nuances and particulars of your
workflow.
fs = require('fs'); //file handling library for NodeJS
wordList = fs.readFileSync(__dirname +
'/list.txt').toString().trim().split('\n'); //get the values in "list.txt"
content = ' ' + fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/content.txt').toString().trim() +
' '; //gets the content
output = []; //initialize output variable
wordList.forEach(thisSearch => { //iterate through your list of words
var thisRegex, thisRslt, thisCount;
thisRegex = new RegExp('[^a-zA-Z]' + thisSearch + '[^a-zA-Z]', 'g'); //Set
up the search / count
thisRslt = content.match(thisRegex); // execute the count
thisCount = (thisRslt == null ? 0 : thisRslt.length); // turn "null" results
into zero
console.log(thisSearch, thisCount, thisRslt); //progress outputted to console
output.push(thisSearch + "\t" + thisCount); //add to the output variable
});
fs.writeFileSync(__dirname + '/output.txt', output.join('\n')); //puts the
final result in a file named "output.txt"
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