Counting words

Counting words

[David Sumbler]

How do I do a word count in Emacs?

I'm sure there must be a simple way, but using the command apropos and
looking in reference indexes hasn't found me an answer.

David

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Re: Counting words

[Jesper Harder]

David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:

> How do I do a word count in Emacs?

`M-| wc -w'

Re: Counting words

[David Sumbler]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Jesper Harder wrote:

> David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:
>
> > How do I do a word count in Emacs?
>
> `M-| wc -w'

Brilliant!

I hadn't thought of using a shell command, and I wasn't really
familiar with M-! and M-| anyway, so it has been a very useful lesson.

Thanks for your help.

David

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Re: Counting words

[Masashi Ito]

Hi,

In case you would like to count words in the specified region rather than
the whole buffer, the following lisp works. I am using it, putting it in my
.emacs file, and binding the function to C-c c. I found the lisp definition
at:

http://olympus.het.brown.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs-lisp-intro)Counting+Words

Also, to have, say, "two-story" counted as one word rather than two words,
see:

http://olympus.het.brown.edu/cgi-bin/info2www?(emacs-lisp-intro)Syntax

Best,

Masashi

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;; Final version: while'
(defun count-words-region (beginning end)
  "Print number of words in the region."
  (interactive "r")
  (message "Counting words in region ... ")

;;; 1. Set up appropriate conditions.
  (save-excursion
    (let ((count 0))
      (goto-char beginning)

;;; 2. Run the while loop.
      (while (and (< (point) end)
;;; original
;;                  (re-search-forward "\\w+\\W*" end t))
;;; but, to count words joined by a hyphen (or hyphens) as one word
        (re-search-forward "\\(\\w\\|\\s_\\)+[^ \t\n]*[ \t\n]*" end t))
        (setq count (1+ count)))

;;; 3. Send a message to the user.
      (cond ((zerop count)
             (message
              "The region does NOT have any words."))
            ((= 1 count)
             (message
              "The region has 1 word."))
            (t
             (message
              "The region has %d words." count))))))
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Re: Counting words

[Matthias Mees]

David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Jesper Harder wrote:
>
>> David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>> How do I do a word count in Emacs?
>>
>> `M-| wc -w'
>
> Brilliant!

Just in case this is too much typing for you (and JFTR):
<URL:http://members.a1.net/t.link/textstats.el.gz>

Matthias

Re: Counting words

[Roodwriter]

Jesper Harder wrote:

> David Sumbler <david@nospam.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> How do I do a word count in Emacs?
> 
> `M-| wc -w'


That is an elegant solution. This after I slipped some Lisp code I found on 
the web into my .emacs file.

It's coming out now.

I need to think a little more about the M-| command.

Thanks.

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Counting words

["Wilfred Zegwaard (privé)"]

Hello,

Can someone point me out some good documentation about counting words, 
tags, etc in EMacs?

Thanks,

Wilfred

Re: Counting words

[Robert D. Crawford]

"Wilfred Zegwaard (privé)" <wilfred.zegwaard@home.nl> writes:

> Can someone point me out some good documentation about counting words,
> tags, etc in EMacs?

You might have to be a little more specific.  Do you mean counting total
words in a buffer?  If so, here is how to do that:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WordCount

If you are talking about counting the number of times a specific word
occurs in a buffer or the like, I am sure someone else has done that
before and will post a solution soon.

Concerning tags, can you be more specific here as well?  HTML tags?

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Re: Counting words

["Wilfred Zegwaard (privé)"]

I found the wordcount thing.
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.

Not HTML tags, but specific strings that this package that I use calls 
TAGS and who are easily identifiable with a string or string combination.

Wilfred



"Wilfred Zegwaard (privé)" <wilfred.zegwaard@home.nl> writes:

> Can someone point me out some good documentation about counting words,
> tags, etc in EMacs?

You might have to be a little more specific.  Do you mean counting total
words in a buffer?  If so, here is how to do that:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WordCount

If you are talking about counting the number of times a specific word
occurs in a buffer or the like, I am sure someone else has done that
before and will post a solution soon.

Concerning tags, can you be more specific here as well?  HTML tags?

rdc
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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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Re: Counting words

["Wilfred Zegwaard (privé)"]

Yep. This is what I need. Can you point me to documentation where the 
appropriate functions and key-bindings can be found? An entry / link is 
ok. (Not grep. I've got that.)

Wilfred

PS: There seems to be a function in EMacs where I can attach a specific 
signature, a sort of approximate CRC, to a fuzzy search, a bind to "the 
exact word". Is that available?


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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Re: Counting words

[Colin S. Miller]

Wilfred Zegwaard (privé) wrote:
> I found the wordcount thing.
> 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.
> 
> Not HTML tags, but specific strings that this package that I use calls 
> TAGS and who are easily identifiable with a string or string combination.
> 
> Wilfred
> 
>

Wilfred,

you can use replace-regexp to do this

Try
M-x replace-regexp
\bthe exact phrase\b
\&


\b means word-boundary,
\& means replace with what was found.

This is a bit nasty, but after the regexp-replace has
finished, it should echo "Replaced xx occurrences"
to the minibuffer.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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Re: Counting words

[thorne]

> Wilfred Zegwaard (privé) wrote:
>> I found the wordcount thing.
>> 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.

My versions of Emacs i use (22 and 23) both have an interactive
function called `how-many' (aliased to `count-matches' also) that
counts the number of matches for a regexp in a buffer.  Is that what
you are looking for?

I was just using it last night editing a large fiction work to look
for possibly overused words.

,----[ C-h f how-many RET ]
| how-many is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `replace.el'.
| (how-many regexp &optional rstart rend interactive)
| 
| Print and return number of matches for regexp following point.
| When called from Lisp and interactive is omitted or nil, just return
| the number, do not print it; if interactive is t, the function behaves
| in all respects has if it had been called interactively.
| 
| If regexp contains upper case characters (excluding those preceded by `\'),
| the matching is case-sensitive.
| 
| Second and third arg rstart and rend specify the region to operate on.
| 
| Interactively, in Transient Mark mode when the mark is active, operate
| on the contents of the region.  Otherwise, operate from point to the
| end of (the accessible portion of) the buffer.
| 
| This function starts looking for the next match from the end of
| the previous match.  Hence, it ignores matches that overlap
| a previously found match.
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Fuzzy search (was: Counting words)

["Wilfred Zegwaard (privé)"]

Both methodes replace-regexp en count-matches are exact. That is not 
exactly what I want in the end. I'm looking for a type of fuzzy search 
with words which nearly exact. (Like the R statistical fuzzy search).
Eg.: the hero was here
Fuzzy search in the document, and it finds: the hero was there

It almost matches.
This is what I'm looking for. Any functions in Emacs which does the trick?

Wilfred




Wilfred Zegwaard (privé) wrote:
> I found the wordcount thing.
> 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.
> 
> Not HTML tags, but specific strings that this package that I use calls 
> TAGS and who are easily identifiable with a string or string combination.
> 
> Wilfred
> 
>

Wilfred,

you can use replace-regexp to do this

Try
M-x replace-regexp
\bthe exact phrase\b
\&


\b means word-boundary,
\& means replace with what was found.

This is a bit nasty, but after the regexp-replace has
finished, it should echo "Replaced xx occurrences"
to the minibuffer.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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Re: Fuzzy search (was: Counting words)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.04.2007 um 23:06 schrieb Wilfred Zegwaard (privé):

> Both methodes replace-regexp en count-matches are exact. That is  
> not exactly what I want in the end. I'm looking for a type of fuzzy  
> search with words which nearly exact.

Then use a shell-command with agrep: "search a file for a string or  
regular expression, with approximate matching capabilities," ftp:// 
ftp.cs.arizona.edu/agrep/, http://webglimpse.net/.

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Re: Fuzzy search (was: Counting words)

["Wilfred Zegwaard (privé)"]

Nice.
Does anyone know a link to approximate matching cap's based on sound 
assessment (the way the word is spoken?).

Wilfred


Am 12.04.2007 um 23:06 schrieb Wilfred Zegwaard (privé):

> Both methodes replace-regexp en count-matches are exact. That is  
> not exactly what I want in the end. I'm looking for a type of fuzzy  
> search with words which nearly exact.

Then use a shell-command with agrep: "search a file for a string or
regular expression, with approximate matching capabilities," ftp://
ftp.cs.arizona.edu/agrep/, http://webglimpse.net/.

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