Re^9: putting text into array word by word

OK, let's extract another worm from the can we've opened. Say we want to count all the times 'John' appears in a text. Given a sentence:

Was it John or John's brother?

Should the count be one or two?

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Re^10: putting text into array word by word by jms53 (Monk) on Jan 10, 2012 at 20:14 UTC
Actually, that is the next part of what I'm going to do. However, since I am only interested in words from the English dictionary, it doesn't matter so much whether John's is counted or not as John. (export to csv, open in spreadsheet). I would however be extremely interested in knowing how you would change this, as I will get that kind of issue with contractions (it's, wouldn't, etc. that I had planned on tackling with a spreadsheet, (but then again, I am trying to minimize user interaction) Thank you	[reply]

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Re^10: putting text into array word by word
by jms53 (Monk) on Jan 10, 2012 at 20:14 UTC

Actually, that is the next part of what I'm going to do.

However, since I am only interested in words from the English dictionary, it doesn't matter so much whether John's is counted or not as John. (export to csv, open in spreadsheet).

I would however be extremely interested in knowing how you would change this, as I will get that kind of issue with contractions (it's, wouldn't, etc. that I had planned on tackling with a spreadsheet, (but then again, I am trying to minimize user interaction)

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