If you're using an sql  db:

SELECT <thewordnumber>, count(*) AS C FROM <table> GROUP BY < thewordnumber
> ORDER BY C DESCENDING

Returns the word numbers and count sorted by count high to low.

Pete
lcSQL Software
On May 4, 2014 8:47 PM, "JOHN PATTEN" <johnpat...@me.com> wrote:

> Thanks Kay!
>
> That’s what I needed. I knew it was pretty simple, but my unfamiliarity
> with arrays prevented me from seeing the solution.
>
> Cheers!
>
> John Patten
> SUSD
>
> On May 4, 2014, at 8:14 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This might get you started, in the msg box:
> >
> > put "3,5,6,6,24,24,24,33,130,109" into tData
> > --if the data comes from the db as seperate lines, then
> > --repeat for each line tRecord in tData
> > --if data comes in from db as a list
> > repeat for each item tRecord in tData
> > add 1 to aCount[tRecord]
> > end repeat
> > --now output results
> > repeat for each key tKey in aCount
> >  put tKey & " = " & aCount[tKey] & cr after msg
> > end repeat
> >
> > The output I get is:
> >
> > 109 = 1
> > 3 = 1
> > 130 = 1
> > 5 = 1
> > 33 = 1
> > 24 = 3
> > 6 = 2
> >
> > HTH
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:58 AM, JOHN PATTEN <johnpat...@me.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi All…
> >>
> >> I am attempting to get the total number of times specific words in a
> text
> >> passage are selected by students. The way I’m doing this is by recording
> >> the word numbers selected by each student and storing them in a
> database.
> >> I end up with list of numbers representing the selected words, something
> >> like this:
> >> 3
> >> 5
> >> 6
> >> 6
> >> 24
> >> 24
> >> 24
> >> 33
> >> 130
> >> 109
> >> … etc. etc. I would like to determine the number of times the same words
> >> are selected by the students and then control their font size, make the
> >> font size larger the more often the text is selected. So the teacher’s
> >> report would be the same passage of text with the font sizes of the text
> >> increased based on how many times the word was selected by the students.
> >>
> >> I’m not sure how to get the counts for the selected words. These list of
> >> word numbers could be quite long, depending on how many students are in
> the
> >> class and the length of the passage. I have not done anything like this
> >> before so I’m looking for any advice. Should I be dumping the list into
> an
> >> array and then working some kind of array magic? Can I just use a
> repeated
> >> find script and increment a variable for each item in my list?
> >>
> >> I didn’t want to spin my wheels too long, and this is probably pretty
> >> basic, but I can’t remember coding a solution to something like this in
> the
> >> past.
> >>
> >> Thank you!
> >> John Patten
> >> SUSD
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