Re: Any faster way to find frequency of words?

[Jean Louis]

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-05-09 18:05]:
> 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)

How do you get `occurences'? You would count for words each time? Is
it function? I cannot find it.

I think that your (4) is not necessary, as counting is not
necessary. 

-- 
Jean

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