There have been - and probably will be - quite a few posts regarding word counts. This solution doesn't work. To give just one example, "can't" ends up as 1 "can" and 1 "t". Other solutions often have it as "cant", but what is really needed is testing to see if the apostrophe has at least one letter on each side. Also, what about end of line word splits? A word like:

google-
plex

Should be converted to googleplex before counting. I imagine there are one or two other things to program in as well.

I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad place to start, but you need to program in some modifications. Better get cracking.

In reply to Re: Answer: How do I count the frequency of words in a file and save them for later? by TedPride
in thread How do I count the frequency of words in a file and save them for later? by ghenry

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