Word frequency statistics for a file

Tip: Word frequency statistics for a file

Created: 2007-11-13 Complexity: advanced Author: vale.smth Version: 7.0

To generate a table of the occurrence frequency for every word in a file, just enter these commands.

:%s/\_A\+/\t1\r/g
:sort i
:g/\c\(.\+\)\n\1$/norm $yiwj@"^Akdd

In the above, ^A represents CTRL-A, and should be input directly (press CTRL-V then CTRL-A). On Windows, you would probably need to press CTRL-Q then CTRL-A, and you would probably first have to issue the command :unmap <C-A>.

Note that the above changes the file, so you would want to be working on a copy of your text, or you will need to undo the changes.

Comments

An amazing tip, but someone should briefly explain how it works.

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