How to add a while true loop to count how many times a word was said in the text?

Question

I'm trying to use dictionary and some loops to figure out how many times a word was written and if user types in "quit" then the program should stop. This is what I have so far:

import string 

text = open('text.txt', 'r') 

val = dict()

for i in text:
    i = i.strip().lower().split(" ")
    print(i)

This is the output necessary

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '21 at 22:32

This is one approach to the problem:

with open('text.txt', 'r') as file:
    data = file.read()

data = data.replace('\n', ' ')
data = data.split(' ')
while True:
    counter = 0
    search_term = input('Word: ')
    if search_term == 'quit':
        break
    for word in data:
        if word.lower() == search_term.lower() or word.lower() == search_term.lower() + '.':
            counter += 1
    if counter == 0:
        print('None found!')
    else:
        print(f'Number of "{search_term}": {counter}')

How to add a while true loop to count how many times a word was said in the text?

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