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Re: Count number of words on a web page?

by JSchmitz (Canon)
on Feb 09, 2010 at 13:39 UTC ( [id://822190]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Count number of words on a web page?

#!/usr/bin/perl

$/ = ""; 
$* = 1; 

while (<>) {
#s/-\n//g; 
tr/A-Z/a-z/; 
@words = split(/\W*\s+\W*/, $_); # split into words
foreach $word (@words) {
$wordcount{$word}++; # count the words
}
}
foreach $word (sort keys(%wordcount)) {
printf "%8d\t\t%s\n", $wordcount{$word}, $word;
}

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Hope that helps

Jeffery

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Re^2: Count number of words on a web page?
by cdarke (Prior) on Feb 09, 2010 at 16:26 UTC
    Use word boundaries (\b). 
    $_ ='The,quick,brown;foxy.  Does a lot,of:jumping!';

my @words = split(/\W*\s+\W*/, $_); # split into words

print 'Number of words: '.@words."\n";

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    gives 4 words. However
    my @words = split(/\b\W*/, $_); # split into words

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    gives 9 words.
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Re^2: Count number of words on a web page?
by jdlev (Scribe) on Feb 09, 2010 at 13:49 UTC
    Thanks!
    I love it when a program comes together - jdhannibal
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