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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl)
Date: 26 Sep 2004 13:44:10 +0200
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Eric Jacoboni wrote:

> for a_file in ARGF do
>   for a_line in a_file do
>     for a_word in a_line.split(/[^A-Za-z]+/) do
>         count[a_word.downcase] += 1
>     end # for a_word 
>   end # for a_line
> end # for a_file

That's reasonably readable.  Probably easier to read than the Bash
one-liner that I usually use for this purpose.  Maybe it is worthwhile
to look a bit at Ruby for text processing.

Jacob
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