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How to count how many times a word appears in a .txt file

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Why would you need a program to complete it? Surely the CTRL+F and Count would work better in Notepad++

 

Edit: or what @Nefarious Triggertrigger said :shiftyninja:

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  On 13/03/2017 at 14:04, fifikaki said:

Nefarious Trigger its a project but i have no idea what to do

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A school project? Neowin won't do your homework for you, but we can offer you guidance and point you in the right direction.

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  On 13/03/2017 at 14:12, fifikaki said:

I want to give me just an idea. Νot solve my project...maybe my question it was wrong. sorry

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I always started with pseudocode before going in to real coding. That way I had an idea of what I wanted to achieve. So let's start with that, what do you want the program to do? If you had to do the job yourself rather than creating a program, how would you count how many times a certain word appears?

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  On 13/03/2017 at 14:12, fifikaki said:

 

I want to give me just an idea. Νot solve my project...maybe my question it was wrong. sorry

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So what self-driven learning have you undertaken so far?  I ask this because what you're asking is ridiculously easy, and I struggle to accept that you've even tried so far.

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  On 13/03/2017 at 13:43, anonymous_john said:

Hello! Ηow to create a program in C ++ where it counts how many times appears a specific word in a  txt file? Can someone help me?

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The problem with a question like this is we have no idea what's actually blocking you. Have you ever written any C++? Any program in any language? Do you know how to open a file in C++? Do you know how to compare strings?

 

Show us what you've done and what exactly is blocking you from making progress.

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  On 13/03/2017 at 14:35, winlonghorn said:

I would suggest Regular Expressions. Research MatchCollections with Regular Expressions in .NET. That should allow you to achieve what you want. Hopefully, that points you in the right direction.

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Yes regex is the solution, if you ever need to parse xml I highly suggest using regex :woot: 

But seriously, don't parse xml with regex, if you want to spend a whole summer debugging code go for it but I wouldn't recommend it, regex isn't designed to work well with nested tags neither is it made to do everything text related even when it could be done with a simpel for loop. Regex is useful as example if you don't want to search for just a word but for all words that start with neo and end with win.

 

He asked about c++ that's quite a bit different from .NET and all of it's libraries available for it.

.NET is like walking with 2 legs but c++ is not even like walking with 1 leg, it's more like having no legs at all in my experience :cry:

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  On 14/03/2017 at 05:02, Seahorsepip said:

 

Yes regex is the solution, if you ever need to parse xml I highly suggest using regex :woot: 

But seriously, don't parse xml with regex, if you want to spend a whole summer debugging code go for it but I wouldn't recommend it, regex isn't designed to work well with nested tags neither is it made to do everything text related even when it could be done with a simpel for loop. Regex is useful as example if you don't want to search for just a word but for all words that start with neo and end with win.

 

He asked about c++ that's quite a bit different from .NET and all of it's libraries available for it.

.NET is like walking with 2 legs but c++ is not even like walking with 1 leg, it's more like having no legs at all in my experience :cry:

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Sorry, I was reading in a hurry yesterday. I was trying to help out and work on a project for work at the same time. Probably wasn't the best idea. Thank you for your response! I agree about c++ btw. It can be rough! 

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