HELP WORDCOUNT R. Evans, March 1983
LIB *WORDCOUNT provides a simple word counting facility for text files.
Commands use the following formats:
lib wordcount; /* to make it available */
wordcount('foo.p') -> <number> /* these both do the same */
wordcount("foo") -> <number>
wordcount(<character repeater>) -> <number>
/* count words from a repeater */
The procedure WORDCOUNT takes one argument which is either a procedure
(assumed to be a character repeater) or a string or word (assumed to be a
filename with the conventions of *DISCIN, i.e. the filename "foo" is
equivalent to 'foo.p'). WORDCOUNT returns one result, the number of words
in the file.
WORDCOUNT is used by VED commands, as follows:
<ENTER> popwc - count POP-11 words in current file
<ENTER> popwcr - count words in marked range
WORDCOUNT uses a simple heuristic to filter out punctuation etc. - see SHOWLIB
WORDCOUNT for details.
See also HELP
*WC - for counting words in text within VED
*PAGE - on simple text-formatting within VED