home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
- {center}
- {subhead} TextInfo{def}{p}
- Review by Renne Nissinen
- {left}
- {p} {p}
-
- TextInfo is a silly little tool that reads a text file, counts words inside
- it and displays statistics. It reports the number of bytes read, letters,
- words, unique words, subsumes, syllabications etc. Then it lists the words;
- the one used most often is first. Next comes a subsume report; for example it
- detects that the word "tools" is the same thing as "tool", and then it makes
- a list showing how many of the used words you need to know in order to
- understand a certain percentage of the text (5..95% with steps of 5%).
- {p} {p}
- You can configure it to skip some part(s) of the report, and set the endings
- to subsume etc, but it still won't be perfect - language is just not that
- simple, unfortunately :) It can be fun to see the reports of some text files,
- and TextInfo is written with email signatures in mind so you can append
- statistics to every message, but it won't be a lot of fun for very long, as you
- probably can imagine.. :) Here is a shortened version of the report generated
- from this text upto the colon:
- {p} {p}
- Bytes read 1038{p}
- Letters 787{p}
- Words 188{p}
- Unique 99{p}
- Subsumes 7{p}
- Syllabications 0{p}
- [...]
- {p} {p}
- the 12{p}
- it 9{p}
- of 8{p}
- a 7{p}
- is 6{p}
- to 6{p}
- word 6{p}
- report 5{p}
- and 4{p}
- can 4{p}
- text 4{p}
- you 4{p}
- be 3{p}
- subsume 3{p}
- textinfo 3{p}
- that 3{p}
- tool 3{p}
- [...]
- {p} {p}
- Subsume report...
- {p} {p}
- files(1)=file{p}
- lists(1)=list{p}
- [...]
- {p} {p}
- 5 % 1{p}
- 20 % 4{p}
- 50 % 17{p}
- 75 % 46{p}
- 90 % 73{p}
- 95 % 82
- {p} {p}
- Available from: Aminet:text/misc/TextInfo.lha
- {p} {p}
- Overall: 73%
-