Re: Insert a meter only once

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Re^2: Insert a meter only once by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Nov 20, 2015 at 17:23 UTC
Further to toolic's post: I have no idea what the word meter means in the context of the OP. The only application to written text I can think of has to do with poetry (see the linked word definitions). Is "meter" in your context something like a "metric", a "measure", perhaps a "total count"? A short, executable example might clarify this. Update: Oops... Meant to reply to JabberJay58 in the main thread, not to toolic. Oh, well... Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Insert a meter only once by Not_a_Number (Prior) on Nov 20, 2015 at 20:47 UTC
Well 'compteur' in French means 'counter' (as in 'compteur de mots' = 'word counter'). But 'compteur' also means 'meter', as in electricity/gas meter, or the meter in a taxi. So I guess the OP is really looking to count distinct words in a text.	[reply]
Re^4: Insert a meter only once by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Nov 20, 2015 at 22:56 UTC
Perhaps JabberJay58 wants a list of the words used in a file and number of times each is used. This can be done by storing the words as the keys of a hash and keeping the counts in the corresponding values. Bill	[reply]