Re: Counting words

["Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>]

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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