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Re: Count Ouccrence of words in a long text

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  • Subject: [mg119051] Re: Count Ouccrence of words in a long text
  • From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
  • Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 06:40:38 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <ir2vpa$h3b$1@smc.vnet.net>

Hi,

> Second step:
>
> How could I take apart the words ("alice" should become "a,l,i,c,e") to get a tally of the letters in a text? (Interesting when comparing languages.)
>

Another call for one liners :-)

Tally[StringCases[ToLowerCase[text], LetterCharacter]]

cheers,

albert


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