Re: Counting Symbols
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- Subject: [mg70905] Re: Counting Symbols
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <steve_usenet at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 03:55:41 -0500 (EST)
- References: <ei4lrs$djv$1@smc.vnet.net>
StringCount does what you want.
FrontEndExecute[{HelpBrowserLookup["RefGuideLink", "StringCount"]}]
Steve Luttrell
West Malvern, UK
"R M" <ihcuwum at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ei4lrs$djv$1 at smc.vnet.net...
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> I have a whole bunch of documents from which I would like to figure out
> what keystrokes/symbols are used the most. What commands should I use to
> figure this out? I have (unsuccessfully) tried to use Flatten and Short.
> My approach is to pull the document into Mathematica as a notebook object,
> then use Mathematica's list manipulation commands to figure out what
> symbols are used most frequently.
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> This whole problem involves my recent purchase of a Logic Controls
> programmable keyboard. So far I have programmed keys to perform
> [esc]sumt[esc], [downarrow]alt+5, cntrl+space, cntrl+9, etc. I am trying
> to figure out which symbols are used the most so that I can program the
> keyboard most efficiently.
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