From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Any faster way to find frequency of words? Date: Sun, 09 May 2021 17:02:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87mtt40x2n.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12755"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:zQWlQulsOha9hvo7BxFvu/CntbI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 09 17:05:01 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lfkzM-00039W-Iz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 09 May 2021 17:05:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50610 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfkzL-0002GV-KU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 09 May 2021 11:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41332) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfkxI-0000H4-IL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2021 11:02:52 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:49148) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lfkxH-0007aO-2c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2021 11:02:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lfkxE-0000e0-TK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 May 2021 17:02:48 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129624 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > (text (text-alphabetic-only text)) > (words (split-string text " " t " "))) Here is what I would try first 1. `buffer-substring' 2. `split-string' 3. `delete-dups' 4. loop and do `how-many' 5. get a new list with '(occurrences word) 6. sort WRT occurrences 7. loop and (insert "%d %s\n" occ wrd) Easy. Fast enough? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal