Count Instances

[Brutal 164]

Here's what I am trying to do but can't seem to figure out:

 

I scrape a page of text, and I want to count how many times a specific word or phrase is used in that content.

 

Example: the dog has fleas, but his fleas are trained to act like dogs, so the dogs fleas are going to make a great circus act.

 

I want to count how many times the word "fleas" has been used in the content.

 

Of course, the control word (fleas in this case) would be in the form of a variable that the user would enter the phrase/word to search for.

 

Any idea on how to achieve this?

 

[the_way 52]

add list to list

$list from text

split the list by delimiter 'fleas'

return the list total

[Brutal 164]

You're a Rock Star man!... I appreciate it. It's still giving me funky results, but it is also better than what I had, so thanks again man.

[the_way 52]

if you want to catch Fleas, and fleas, then you could have the keyword change case, find and replace both the words through the text with something like '@@@keyword@@@' and then split with that as the delimiter.

[Brutal 164]

good call man - i'm going to do that. Thanks again for the great help.