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Re: Count Ouccrence of words in a long text

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  Re: Count Ouccrence of words in a long text Bill Rowe <readnews@sbcglobal.net> - 2011-05-21 10:48 +0000

#2565 — Re: Count Ouccrence of words in a long text

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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