Here are some rough ideas to get you started.
1. Total number of words in the text field
put the number of words in fld "myField" into numWords
2. Total number of Paragraphs in the text field
You would have to define what constitutes a paragraph, but, for example:
## <carriage return> means new paragraph
put 0 into paragraphCount
repeat for each char c in fld "myField"
if (c = cr) then add 1 to paragraphCount
end repeat
For more complicated definitions of "paragraph" you might use offset()
to search for certain character sequences.
3. Total number of Sentences in the text field
Similar to #2, except maybe with a list of sentence-ending punctuation:
put 0 into sentenceCount
repeat for each char c in fld "myField"
if (c is in "?!.") then add 1 to sentenceCount
end repeat
4. Total number of sentences per paragraph
Combination of #2 and #3 might work... something like:
## initialize
put 0 into paragraphCount
put 0 into sentenceCount
put empty into sentenceCounts
repeat for each char c in fld "myField"
## new paragraph: store the sentence count from the last one
if (c = cr) then
put sentenceCount into line paragraphCount of sentenceCounts
add 1 to paragraphCount
put 0 into sentenceCount
end if
if (c is in "?!.") then add 1 to sentenceCount
end repeat
answer sentenceCounts ## displays counts one per line for each paragraph
5. Average number of words in a sentence
Something like #3, except try tracking your current position. Each time
you finish a sentence, use a chunk expression like:
put the number of words in char (sentenceStart) to (sentenceEnd) into
numWords
6. Total number of passive verbs (this one would be probably
involve a
small database/flat file to search and compare through?)
Try "repeat for each word" and lookup the words...
Ideas and help are greatly appreciated. Since I don’t know much about
the coding
language yet, the more specific the better. Thank you all!
Hope that gives you a head start. I think you'll find if you get a
little further along, you can come back and gets lots more help here!
- Brian
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