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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 I know there are plenty of other tools that will do this build right into great text editors and this is a little out-of-date, but this is a nicely dead-simple way to track measure that: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

I suggest to use this word counter site.

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.

lautrepay wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 1:53 pm http://www.alexnolan.net/software/word- ... ulator.htm

Nice, thanks. Another one to test out.

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

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.

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:
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:

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

WC WordCount

CLI's Sancta Simplicitas extolled...

__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.

Worry no more...

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 !

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.

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

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 !

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.

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*