Words without quotes

[richmond62]

I am currently knocking up a word frequency counter . . .

Now my "customer" (OK, OK, my younger son) wants to be able to differentiate between "NATO" and NATO.

Using trueword it is dead easy to find all the occurrences of "NATO" with quotes by entering "NATO" in my search thing:
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That gives me all the occurrences of "NATO".

However, if I enter NATO (without quotes) I get the occurrences of both "NATO" and NATO, and that is no good.

[stam]

Does search for text formatted as

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quote & "NATO" & quote

make any difference?

[dunbarx]

Hi,

Try this. On a new card with a button and a field, put this in the button script:

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on mouseUp
   get fld 1
   repeat for each word tWord in it
      add 1 to wordCount[tWord]
   end repeat
   breakpoint
end mouseUp

Put this in the field:

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nato "nato" nato "nato" nato

Click the button, look at the array variable "wordCount".

How much do you charge your son?

Craig

[jacque]

Craig's right, use "word" to include quotes. To avoid matches that occur within words, I'd check the search term for quotes and if they exist, use "word" and if not, use "trueword".