WordCounter - live word and character amount

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WordCounter - live word and character amount

#1 Post by webfork »

There's a bunch of applications that require a specific word and character count. I know there are plenty of other tools that will do this build right into great text editors and this is a little out-of-date, but this is a nicely dead-simple way to track measure that:

Softpedia download: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-to ... nter.shtml
The home page is now what the whole thing has morphed into: a webapp: https://wordcounter.net/ ... that makes Softpedia the homepage for the downloadable program.

Steps: Uniextract, launch WordCount.exe

Requires: dotNET

Status: Portable, writes no settings

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#2 Post by rsneha »

I suggest to use this word counter site.

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rsneha wrote: Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:19 am I suggest to use this word counter site.
Thanks -- I've found one or two other web applications that can handle this but I'm trying to find programs that are downloadable. That way you have access to these tools and a reliable experience so you don't hesitate if the internet or the site goes down.

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Nice, thanks. Another one to test out.

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May (or not?) fit the bill: Stefan Trost's Word Creator: https://www.sttmedia.com/wordcreator.

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Midas wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 3:57 am May (or not?) fit the bill: Stefan Trost's Word Creator: https://www.sttmedia.com/wordcreator.
Interesting. After playing around with it for a while, I find it quite useful. Thanks. :D

In a similar vein: https://sites.google.com/site/wordstatix/

When it comes to word counting alone, no concordance, not even an interface (other than the message box with the result of the word count), I rely on AutoHotkey. There are various ways to count words with RegEx, this is just one approach:

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  Count := 0
  Position := 1 
  while, Position := RegExMatch(NewClipboard, "\S+", Out, Position+Strlen(Out))
    Count++
 
Improvements and suggestions are welcome.

To use it, I wrapped it into a script that first saves the current clipboard content (then restores it at the end), copies the selected text to the clipboard, performs the word count, and displays the result in a message box. Works everywhere, any document, any kind of text program. Provided it finds selected text that it can copy and work with.

To trigger it, one could assign a hotkey, or call it from a custom toolbar button, if the app(s) in question allow this.

Script as txt-file, and also a compiled exe of the very same txt-file:
CountWords.zip
(702.16 KiB) Downloaded 258 times

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#8 Post by Midas »

I like your DIY solution, FileHandler. I'll be sure to study your code. Thanks. 8)

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#9 Post by __philippe »

WC WordCount

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Usage: wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Print line, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if
more than one FILE is specified.  With no FILE, or when FILE is -,
read standard input.
  -c, --bytes, --chars   print the byte counts
  -l, --lines            print the newline counts
  -L, --max-line-length  print the length of the longest line
  -w, --words            print the word counts
      --help             display this help and exit
      --version          output version information and exit

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__philippe wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 6:27 am wc [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Would have been nice to get it to work, but it seems to be UNIX only. :cry:

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Worry no more... :wink:

Check a couple of the Unix tools packages therein
which conveniently include WC, among scores of other stand-alone nifty tools, all ported to Win32 PE executables.

Enjoy ! 8)

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#12 Post by webfork »

Did not expect this much interest in word analysis tools! Great to see.
__philippe wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 6:27 am -w, --words print the word counts
Just this one alone is very useful, thanks.
FileHandler wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 2:44 am In a similar vein: https://sites.google.com/site/wordstatix/
Actually have a thread for wordstatix already.
Midas wrote: Wed Mar 30, 2022 3:57 am May (or not?) fit the bill: Stefan Trost's Word Creator: https://www.sttmedia.com/wordcreator.
Stefan's programs are awesome but a few years back he took a liteware (some features under a pay license) tack, which is fine but it felt too close to a cripplware (very little functionality without paying). Still, a good suggestion.

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__philippe wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 6:17 am Worry no more... :wink:

Check a couple of the Unix tools packages therein
which conveniently include WC, among scores of other stand-alone nifty tools, all ported to Win32 PE executables.

Enjoy ! 8)
Thank you. Now it works nicely.
Set up my custom call to the tinyKit standalone wc and it's awesome. The speed of of it, unreal, even for large files. :D
webfork wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 7:35 am Actually have a thread for wordstatix already.
Come to think of it, that's probably where I got it from *slapping forehead* :oops:

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