C# - How to count Words and letters from a .RTF / .TXT File?

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The Title says everything..

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Kirill Polishchuk · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-19T09:08:42.880

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For .txt file you can use regexp \b\w+\b. It will match all occurrences of words, e.g.:

var count = Regex.Matches(input, @"\b\w+\b").Count;

To count letters:

int count = input.Count(char.IsLetter);

edited Aug 19 '11 at 09:08

answered Aug 19 '11 at 08:49

Kirill Polishchuk

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Thank you, that worked fine - to count the words.. Now just need the letters :D – eMi Aug 19 '11 at 09:01
my SolutioN: private int GetLetterCount() { int count = 0; StreamReader tr = new StreamReader("hello.txt"); string text = tr.ReadToEnd(); foreach (char c in text) { if (!char.IsWhiteSpace(c)) { count++; } } return count; } – eMi Aug 19 '11 at 09:10
Your method will count digits, punctuation, letters, i.e. all chars excluding whitespaces. – Kirill Polishchuk Aug 19 '11 at 09:16

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 19 '11 at 08:49

static void Main()
{
     const string t1 = "To be or not to be, that is the question.";
     Console.WriteLine(WordCounting.CountWords1(t1));
     Console.WriteLine(WordCounting.CountWords2(t1));

     const string t2 = "Mary had a little lamb.";
     Console.WriteLine(WordCounting.CountWords1(t2));
     Console.WriteLine(WordCounting.CountWords2(t2));
}

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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getting text from rtf - Get plain text from an RTF text

count words in text - http://www.dotnetperls.com/word-count

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answered Aug 19 '11 at 08:51

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C# - How to count Words and letters from a .RTF / .TXT File?

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