Count occurrences in selected text
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Does anyone know of any applications that can count an occurance of a letter or word or whatever in highlighted text?
Im trying to count the number of times a ',' is occurring in a file, but in only the text i have highlighted. Ive tried it in a few apps,
Notepad++, in its Find Dialog, has the option to count, and a checkbox to select for "selected text" only, but for me, still seems to count occurances in the whole file.
Context, has no count option
UltraEdit, will only count on whole files, when selecting the "selection only", then greys out the count option.
Also, another function ive been trying to find, is an editor that allows you to view selected data in any format. So say i have a hex editor app open, and i have a number of selected hex characters highlighted, i can view the selcted data as floats or ints or int64 etc etc
Im on Windows BTW
Here, happy birthday.
using System;using System.Windows.Forms;namespace WindowsFormsApplication1{ public class FormFind : Form { private TableLayoutPanel tableLayoutPanel1; private MenuStrip menuStrip1; private ToolStripMenuItem fileToolStripMenuItem; private ToolStripMenuItem openToolStripMenuItem; private ToolStripMenuItem exitToolStripMenuItem; private TextBox textBox1; private TextBox textBox2; private Button button1; private OpenFileDialog openFileDialog1; private CheckBox checkBox1; /// <summary> /// Required designer variable. /// </summary> private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null; /// <summary> /// Clean up any resources being used. /// </summary> /// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should be disposed; otherwise, false.</param> protected override void Dispose(bool disposing) { if (disposing && (components != null)) { components.Dispose(); } base.Dispose(disposing); } #region Windows Form Designer generated code /// <summary> /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify /// the contents of this method with the code editor. /// </summary> private void InitializeComponent() { this.tableLayoutPanel1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TableLayoutPanel(); this.menuStrip1 = new System.Windows.Forms.MenuStrip(); this.fileToolStripMenuItem = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem(); this.openToolStripMenuItem = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem(); this.exitToolStripMenuItem = new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem(); this.textBox1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox(); this.textBox2 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox(); this.button1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Button(); this.openFileDialog1 = new System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog(); this.checkBox1 = new System.Windows.Forms.CheckBox(); this.tableLayoutPanel1.SuspendLayout(); this.menuStrip1.SuspendLayout(); this.SuspendLayout(); // // tableLayoutPanel1 // this.tableLayoutPanel1.ColumnCount = 3; this.tableLayoutPanel1.ColumnStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnStyle(System.Windows.Forms.SizeType.Percent, 100F)); this.tableLayoutPanel1.ColumnStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnStyle(System.Windows.Forms.SizeType.Absolute, 106F)); this.tableLayoutPanel1.ColumnStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnStyle(System.Windows.Forms.SizeType.Absolute, 59F)); this.tableLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(this.menuStrip1, 0, 0); this.tableLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(this.textBox1, 0, 1); this.tableLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(this.textBox2, 0, 2); this.tableLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(this.button1, 2, 1); this.tableLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(this.checkBox1, 1, 1); this.tableLayoutPanel1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill; this.tableLayoutPanel1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0); this.tableLayoutPanel1.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(0); this.tableLayoutPanel1.Name = "tableLayoutPanel1"; this.tableLayoutPanel1.RowCount = 3; this.tableLayoutPanel1.RowStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.RowStyle(System.Windows.Forms.SizeType.Absolute, 25F)); this.tableLayoutPanel1.RowStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.RowStyle(System.Windows.Forms.SizeType.Absolute, 29F)); this.tableLayoutPanel1.RowStyles.Add(new System.Windows.Forms.RowStyle(System.Windows.Forms.SizeType.Percent, 100F)); this.tableLayoutPanel1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(654, 341); this.tableLayoutPanel1.TabIndex = 0; // // menuStrip1 // this.tableLayoutPanel1.SetColumnSpan(this.menuStrip1, 3); this.menuStrip1.Items.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem[] { this.fileToolStripMenuItem}); this.menuStrip1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0); this.menuStrip1.Name = "menuStrip1"; this.menuStrip1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(654, 24); this.menuStrip1.TabIndex = 0; this.menuStrip1.Text = "menuStrip1"; // // fileToolStripMenuItem // this.fileToolStripMenuItem.DropDownItems.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem[] { this.openToolStripMenuItem, this.exitToolStripMenuItem}); this.fileToolStripMenuItem.Name = "fileToolStripMenuItem"; this.fileToolStripMenuItem.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(37, 20); this.fileToolStripMenuItem.Text = "&FIle"; // // openToolStripMenuItem // this.openToolStripMenuItem.Name = "openToolStripMenuItem"; this.openToolStripMenuItem.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(152, 22); this.openToolStripMenuItem.Text = "&Open"; this.openToolStripMenuItem.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.openToolStripMenuItem_Click); // // exitToolStripMenuItem // this.exitToolStripMenuItem.Name = "exitToolStripMenuItem"; this.exitToolStripMenuItem.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(152, 22); this.exitToolStripMenuItem.Text = "E&xit"; this.exitToolStripMenuItem.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.exitToolStripMenuItem_Click); // // textBox1 // this.textBox1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill; this.textBox1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(3, 28); this.textBox1.Name = "textBox1"; this.textBox1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(483, 20); this.textBox1.TabIndex = 1; // // textBox2 // this.textBox2.AcceptsReturn = true; this.textBox2.AcceptsTab = true; this.tableLayoutPanel1.SetColumnSpan(this.textBox2, 3); this.textBox2.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill; this.textBox2.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(3, 57); this.textBox2.Multiline = true; this.textBox2.Name = "textBox2"; this.textBox2.ScrollBars = System.Windows.Forms.ScrollBars.Both; this.textBox2.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(648, 281); this.textBox2.TabIndex = 2; this.textBox2.WordWrap = false; // // button1 // this.button1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill; this.button1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(598, 28); this.button1.Name = "button1"; this.button1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(53, 23); this.button1.TabIndex = 3; this.button1.Text = "Count!"; this.button1.UseVisualStyleBackColor = true; this.button1.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.button1_Click); // // openFileDialog1 // this.openFileDialog1.FileName = "openFileDialog1"; // // checkBox1 // this.checkBox1.AutoSize = true; this.checkBox1.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill; this.checkBox1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(492, 28); this.checkBox1.Name = "checkBox1"; this.checkBox1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(100, 23); this.checkBox1.TabIndex = 4; this.checkBox1.Text = "Case Sensitive"; this.checkBox1.UseVisualStyleBackColor = true; // // FormFind // this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(6F, 13F); this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font; this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(654, 341); this.Controls.Add(this.tableLayoutPanel1); this.MainMenuStrip = this.menuStrip1; this.Name = "FormFind"; this.Text = "Find In Selected Text"; this.tableLayoutPanel1.ResumeLayout(false); this.tableLayoutPanel1.PerformLayout(); this.menuStrip1.ResumeLayout(false); this.menuStrip1.PerformLayout(); this.ResumeLayout(false); } #endregion public FormFind() { InitializeComponent(); } /// <summary> /// The main entry point for the application. /// </summary> [STAThread] static void Main() { Application.EnableVisualStyles(); Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false); Application.Run(new FormFind()); } private void exitToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { this.Close(); } private void openToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) textBox2.Text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(openFileDialog1.FileName); } private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { string find = textBox1.Text; string text = textBox2.Text; if (textBox2.SelectionLength > 0) text = textBox2.SelectedText; if (!checkBox1.Checked) { find = find.ToLower(); text = text.ToLower(); } int count = text.IndexOf(find) == 0 ? 0 : -1; for (int i = 0; -1 < i && i < text.Length; i = text.IndexOf(find, i + 1)) count++; MessageBox.Show(string.Format("{0} occurances", count)); } }}
On Textpad, if I wanted to count occurrences, I suppose I could do a "find and replace" within selected text, while using the same string in both the find and replace boxes. That would give me a note of the number of occurrences, and shouldn't affect anything.
If needed, I could simply undo the replace as well ... that might be needed, if the search was some type of regex, where the "find" string and the "replace" string might not be able to have the same value.
This trick might work on other editors, too.
If needed, I could simply undo the replace as well ... that might be needed, if the search was some type of regex, where the "find" string and the "replace" string might not be able to have the same value.
This trick might work on other editors, too.
In Vim, I select the text, do :%s/,//g (well, actually the command is :'<,'>%s/,//g but Vim fills in the '<,'> part), note the report of how many substitutions were made, and then undo (or quit without saving, as appropriate).
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