Re: Counting words

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.04.2007 um 13:46 schrieb Wilfred Zegwaard (privé):

> I mean specific instances of words. The number of times eg that  
> "the" occurs in a text. But I need to search on specific  
> combinations, like "the exact word", but also a fuzzy search on  
> specific combinations.

You might think of making the whole text or region temporarily to one  
line and split it at "the exact word" to have as many lines as  
instances exist.

For counting a particular word you can convert each instance of white  
space into a newline, grep for exactly this particular word, and then  
count (a pipe of tr, grep, wc as shell-command for example).

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