in reply to Re^2: Insert a meter only once
in thread Insert a meter only once

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.

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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
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