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troy

hello,

I'm new at this and need pointers on how I can read a file (text or xml)
from the file system and count the number of words in that file. Any ideas?

thanks
Troy
 
Hi Troy,

I'm sure there is a better way to count the words, but this will work

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("MyFile");
string data = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();

string[] words = data.Split(null); // splits at all blank characters

int count = 0;
foreach(string s in words)
{
if((s.Trim()).Length > 0)
count++;
}

count will now be the number of strings of at least 1 character length.
You may want to refine the count and ignore symbols. Regex might be
suitable for this.


Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]
 
holy that was fast - thanks man...

Hi Troy,

I'm sure there is a better way to count the words, but this will work

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader("MyFile");
string data = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();

string[] words = data.Split(null); // splits at all blank characters

int count = 0;
foreach(string s in words)
{
if((s.Trim()).Length > 0)
count++;
}

count will now be the number of strings of at least 1 character length.
You may want to refine the count and ignore symbols. Regex might be
suitable for this.


Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]
 
lol I recomended that to someone else and got chewed a new one...something
about way too much memory usage. If it works....
 
Yep, I suspect it is highly inefficient, but it should work.

Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]
 
Scatropolis said:
lol I recomended that to someone else and got chewed a new one...something
about way too much memory usage. If it works....
Click to expand...

You certainly don't need to read the whole thing in one go. You could
loop round on a line-by-line basis using StreamReader.ReadLine().
 
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