Re: Any faster way to find frequency of words?

[Emanuel Berg]

Jean Louis wrote:

>        (text (text-alphabetic-only text))
>        (words (split-string text " " t " ")))

Here is what I would try first

  1. `buffer-substring'
  2. `split-string'
  3. `delete-dups'
  4. loop and do `how-many'
  5. get a new list with '(occurrences word)
  6. sort WRT occurrences
  7. loop and (insert "%d %s\n" occ wrd)

Easy. Fast enough?

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