Re: Found count of on text item
Re: Found count of on text item
- Subject: Re: Found count of on text item
- From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 17:17:13 -0400
- Organization: [very little]
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Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 16:04:10 -0400
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Subject: Found count of on text item
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From: Matthew Broms <email@hidden>
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To: Applescript Users <email@hidden>
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Is there a fast way to return the number of occurrences of a particular
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string in a large text document. For example, in a 1mb text document, how
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many times does "abc123" occur? I'm just looking for the found count.
This is the best approach I know of:
set srchStrng to text returned of [optn-L]
(display dialog "Enter the text to search for:" default answer "")
set theFile to (choose file with prompt "Pick the file to search:" [optn-L]
of type {"TEXT"})
set fileID to (open for access theFile)
set theText to read fileID
set {od, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to [optn-L]
{AppleScript's text item delimiters, srchStrng}
set theText to text items of theText
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to od
display dialog ("The string occurs " & ((count theText) - 1) as text) & [optn-L]
" times in the file"
NB: "[optn-L]" stands in for the AppleScript continuation character
Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
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[10/4/01 5:16:22 PM]