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From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Any faster way to find frequency of words?
Date: Sun, 9 May 2021 20:19:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJgZuQLiYg6pxKt3@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtt40x2n.fsf@zoho.eu>

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-05-09 18:05]:
> 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)

How do you get `occurences'? You would count for words each time? Is
it function? I cannot find it.

I think that your (4) is not necessary, as counting is not
necessary. 

-- 
Jean

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-09 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-09 14:38 Any faster way to find frequency of words? Jean Louis
2021-05-09 14:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-05-09 15:05   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-09 17:16   ` Jean Louis
2021-05-10  3:37     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-05-10  7:14       ` Jean Louis
2021-05-10 14:02         ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-10 16:26           ` Jean Louis
2021-05-10 16:34             ` Drew Adams
2021-05-10 17:05               ` Jean Louis
2021-05-09 15:02 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-09 17:19   ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-05-09 18:00     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-09 19:03       ` Jean Louis
2021-05-09 23:33         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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