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| From | Bill Rowe <readnews@sbcglobal.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica |
| Subject | Re: Count Ouccrence of words in a long text |
| Date | 2011-05-21 10:48 +0000 |
| Organization | Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <ir859f$bfr$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink) |
On 5/20/11 at 6:34 AM, readhpr@gmail.com (Helen Read) wrote:
>On 5/19/2011 7:43 AM, Matthias Bode wrote:
>>How could I take apart the words ("alice" should become
>>"a,l,i,c,e") to get a tally of the letters in a text?
>(Interesting when comparing languages.)
>Characters[text]
>where text is a string.
For arbitrary text, this probably isn't what is wanted since it
would return all characters not just letters. Better might be:
StringCases[ToLowerCase[text], CharacterRange["a", "z"]]
which would only return letters.
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Re: Count Ouccrence of words in a long text Bill Rowe <readnews@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-05-21 10:48 +0000
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