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Serge · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 1:55 pm Post subject: word count and not string count

dr dread,

i need your help with string.dll ... i have a file that contains 'driving lesson' and 'driving lessons' ... i need to count the number of times each is used ... the problem i come across using string.dll is that when i do a count for 'driving lesson', it also counts the number of times 'driving lessons' occurs because 'driving lessons' contains 'driving lesson' as i am using the string count part of string.dll ... i can't find a way for a word count

is there an easy way for me to be able to get the correct count for 'driving lesson' and 'driving lessons' separately using string.dll?

thanks in advance

serge

Dr. Dread · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 2:16 pm Post subject:

Have you tried something like this:

count "driving lesson"
count "driving lessons"
subtract second count from first, then I guess you should have the real count of "driving lesson".

Greetz
Dread

Serge · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:34 am Post subject:

i take it from your answer that there is no way easy way to do it ... the example i gave you is a very simplified version and i thought of doing a take away but given the way the code is written, this will be very difficult to do as the code does word counts for all sorts of other things as well

thanks for your answer, i will have to think of a work around

serge

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:15 am Post subject:

Any chance you can look for the words with a space after them?
Like "driving lesson " and "driving lessons "

Dr. Dread · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:25 am Post subject:

Serge · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 8:35 am Post subject:

Dr. Dread · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:42 am Post subject:

Actually there's no need to do any replacements.

Use a loop with RegxFind and a counter
Change the RegxFind starting pos for each loop, so you start behind the latest match
Regx has a nice word boundary operator \b so use a RegEx like \bdriving lesson\b

That should do the trick.

Greetz
Dread

Serge · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:52 pm Post subject:

i will give that a try ... i am pulling what is left of my hair at the moment as the workaround i impleted only works some of the time and i can't work out why ... ggrr!!!

thanks for that

serge

Serge · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 9:11 am Post subject:

dr dread,

you are a legend Very Happy

your tip is just what i needed and i don't have to try and find a work around ... i can now keep my hair a bit longer

thanks Very Happy

serge

Dr. Dread · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:03 am Post subject:

Great.

Perhaps start working more with RegExes - they can be a bit hairy so possibly you could even add
to your hair growth Laughing

Greetz
Dread

Serge · Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 9:10 am Post subject:

will do

serge